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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.

Chad has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, a fly-borne tropical disease also known as sleeping sickness, the World Health Organization recently announced.

LMU researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that enables trypanosomes to reach the salivary glands of the flies.