Activities that bring the population into areas where tsetse are present include the cultivation of crops (sorghum, sesame, sweet potatoes), fishing, collection of wood and beekeeping. The Mandoul area is a historical focus of sleeping sickness. It was included in the âsecteur de prophylaxie numÃ©ro 3â created in 1919 and was visited by the medical teams led by Gaston Muraz in 1928 [9, 10].
The average person is awake for about 14 to 16 hours per day. Most could extend that to about 20 hours if they were to stay up later; up to 40 hours is easy once a person getsâ¦ beyond the 24 hour mark; longer than 60 hours (staying awake straight through two nights and three days) is rare, but doable; the record is 264 hours or 11 days straight.
Always ensure that you get between seven and eight hours of good quality sleep every day. Keep the duty durations reasonable. Donât use naps to extend your duty day. Staying awake for longer than 17 hours increases the risk of fatigue and if naps are used that late in the day, sleep inertia can be worse.