East African sleeping sickness is caused by the subspecies ... African trypanosomiasis is by looking for the parasite under a microscope using a body fluid or tissue sample. Samples are generally ...

Once in the bloodstream, the parasitic organism causes the vector-borne disease African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in humans. First stage symptoms include headache, malaise, weakness ...

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.

By Gift BritonAn oral treatment is now saving lives across East and Southern Africa, replacing painful injections and lengthy hospital stays for patients with a rare but deadly strain of sleeping ...

According to experts, African Sleeping Sickness is a zoonotic disease ... “On examining a smear of the woman’s blood under microscope, we found a large number of microscopic S shaped ...

Dundee scientists have been awarded more than £1.5m to find a cure for African sleeping sickness. The money will go towards the study of the disease which kills thousands of people every year in ...