"In June 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the reported number of new cases of sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), has dropped below 10,000 for the first time in 50 years. There were 9,877 reported cases of the disease in 2009 compared to 17,600 in 2004. The WHO is justifiably proud of this achievement and says that it aspires to eliminate the fatal and much neglected disease altogether. However, the reality is that no one knows exactly how large a public health threat sleeping sickness continues to be as the disease is still highly prevalent in an unknown number of remote and neglected areas of Africa." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet