Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health ...

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 ...

There are seven other countries validated by the WHO for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis gambiense. These are Togo (2020), Benin (2021), Ivory Coast (2021), Uganda (2022), Equatorial ...

The National Program for the Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases has launched a blood testing campaign to detect Human ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis ...

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 ...

Guinea's Minister of Health and Public Hygiene Dr Oumar Diouhé BAH said the elimination of sleeping sickness is the result ... 66 deaths reported in 20 African countries from January 2024 to ...

CONAKRY, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem, according to the World ...

Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.