In one campaign, French doctors used six syringes to inject 80, 000 African workers with a medicine for sleeping sickness.

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Infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and sleeping sickness kill millions each year.

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The goal is to eliminate the following diseases by 2020: Guinea worm, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis, blinding trachoma and sleeping sickness.

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They are working on similar tests for tuberculosis and sleeping sickness.

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Professor Ian McConnell, of Cambridge University, a member of the group that produced the report, said one example of the potential benefits would be the development of African cattle resistant to sleeping sickness.

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