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The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...
African sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis) is a tropical disease that is endemic in many areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, with a prevalence of around ~60 million people worldwide. In ...
African sleeping sickness, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, is transmitted by the tsetse fly and is fatal if left untreated. New research reveals a method to manipulate trypanosomes in ...
A team of researchers wants to protect humans and other mammals from the debilitating and even deadly effects of African sleeping sickness. Studying the cause of the disease is vital because ...
The clinical trial for the new sleeping sickness drug was relatively small — involving about 750 patients in Congo and the Central African Republic.
A new drug may lead to a much-needed treatment for African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease estimated to kill more than 30,000 people worldwide each year. The compound rids mice of the ...
The tiny Teste fly has been a scourge for centuries in many parts of Africa, spreading the debilitating and even deadly disease called African sleeping sickness. Now, investigators from Clemson ...
African Sleeping Sickness: A Recurring Epidemic African trypanosomiasis is making an unwelcome comeback. But unlike other returning diseases, this one has a drug treatment—eflornithine—that ...
LMU researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that enables trypanosomes to reach the salivary glands of the flies.
This project brought together scientists from Scotland and Malawi to develop a new interactive educational performance about African sleeping sickness.
While elimination of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)—also known as sleeping sickness—is within reach across the continent, AAT remains a significant burden, with an estimated annual loss ...
Tech & Science Mapping the African sleeping-sickness parasite in the hunt for a new treatment The organism lives in an extracellular environment, inhabiting blood plasma and body fluids.