Twenty-seven U.S. medical professionals from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LMRC), Dental Health Activity Rheinland-Pfalz ...

What is sleeping sickness? The Human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping ... came just before the global observance of Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, which is observed on January 30.

Guinea has officially eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem ... highlighting a major victory in global ...

Guinea has hit a major milestone: sleeping sickness rates have dropped so low that the disease is no longer considered a health threat (there is now less than one case per 10,000 people).

The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a neglected ... is both a testament to global progress against neglected ...

Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is emerging as a global health concern as scientists ... disease to spread beyond its traditional geographic range. Researchers from the University ...

A DEADLY disease that can alter sufferers' personalities shows potential for spreading outside Africa, scientists warn. Known as 'sleeping sickness ... to expand their geographic range by ...

Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasites ... of this life cycle has limited the geographic range of T. brucei to ...

Parasites that cause the deadly illness known as sleeping sickness can spread beyond their native Africa as a result of mutations to ... enabling it to spread beyond its normal geographical range.