Reemergence of Human African Trypanosomiasis Caused by <i>Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense</i>, Ethiopia

Abstract

We report 4 cases of human African trypanosomiasis that occurred in Ethiopia in 2022, thirty years after the last previously reported case in the country. Two of 4 patients died before medicine became available. We identified the infecting parasite as Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. Those cases imply human African trypanosomiasis has reemerged.