Dr Wilfriend Mutombo used to be the only doctor in a village of 11,000 ridden with sleeping sickness infections. He would ...
In July 2023, PaxMedica released topline data from PAX-HAT-301 Retrospective Analysis of Suramin Treatment for Stage 1 Trypanosoma Brucei Rhodesiense Human African Trypanosomiasis (S1 TBR HAT).
What is sleeping sickness? The Human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, is a potentially fatal disease caused by parasites called Trypanosoma. These parasites are transmitted to humans ...
BRENT STIRTON After carrying out painful lumbar punctures – a spinal tap was then the only means of diagnosis – doctors found the group were suffering from sleeping sickness, or human African ...
SLEEPING SICKNESS, or African lethargy, is a disease the history of which we can trace back no further than 100 years. The first description that we know of is that of Winterbottom, who ...
The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a neglected tropical disease. This is the first neglected tropical disease ...
Conakry: Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is ... The disease, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is spread by infected tsetse flies and is endemic in sub-Saharan ...
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related ...