African sleeping sickness—also known as human African trypanosomiasis—is a neglected tropical disease that is usually fatal ...

Civil unrest in key endemic regions, such as the Central African Republic and southwestern Cameroon, has hindered disease ...

African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is a disease caused by a parasite and spread by the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa. Infections begin with mild to moderate symptoms like fever and ...

Tsetse fly. It transmits parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana disease in animals. [iStockphoto] Tsetse flies - which transmit tiny parasites that cause sleeping sickness in ...

Trypanosomes are parasites that cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and various animal diseases. Diagnosis and treatment remain complex and no effective vaccine has been developed. A better ...

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 ...

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health problem in Guinea, the French Research Institute for Development (IRD) said ...

The sleeping sickness parasite, which threatens thousands of lives in Kenya each year may soon become extinct, thanks to its unusual sex life. Researchers from the University of Glasgow's Wellcome ...

Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the ...

Trypanosomes are parasites that cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and various animal diseases. Diagnosis and treatment remain complex and no effective vaccine has been developed.

This may allow sleeping sickness to be wiped out altogether. While some fear the parasite may also be hiding in animals, it is thought the major reservoir is humans. So if all people are treated ...