WHO has a 2030 deadline to eradicate sleeping sickness but is the world actually getting rid of it?
Civil unrest in key endemic regions, such as the Central African Republic and southwestern Cameroon, has hindered disease ...
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Guinea Eliminates Sleeping Sickness
sleeping sickness is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by infected tsetse flies. There are two forms of the disease: one caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, found in 24 countries in West ...
El País in English13d
‘The tsetse fly is attracted to the color blue’: How Guinea has managed to eliminate sleeping sickness as a public health problem
A comprehensive strategy that combines pharmacological advances, vector control, public outreach to raise awareness and ...
Medscape16d
A gene expression panel for estimating age in males and females of the sleeping sickness vector Glossina morsitans.
Many vector-borne diseases are controlled by methods that kill the insect vectors responsible for disease transmission. Recording the age structure of vector populations provides information on ...
AllAfrica.com21d
Guinea Eliminates Sleeping Sickness as Public Health Threat
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 ...
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IRD, DNDi and Institut Pasteur de Guinée welcome the WHO validation for the elimination of sleeping sickness in Guinea
combined medical and vector control strategies have enabled Guinea to reach the threshold of eliminating sleeping sickness as a public health problem (less than one case per 10,000 inhabitants in ...