The Human African Trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, is a Neglected Tropical Disease, which according to researchers, is yet to be eliminated from Nigeria due to the inability to ...

Human trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne parasitic disease of people and animals. Trypanosomiasis is affected by tsetse flies; it transfers the parasites to humans by biting.

Gambian sleeping sickness -- a deadly parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies -- could be eliminated in six years in key regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to new ...

The genome of the tsetse fly has been decoded at last. Ten years of work made it possible for a consortium of 145 scientists to publish the DNA sequence for the vector for sleeping sickness. This ...

African Sleeping Sickness, also known as Human African Trypanosomiasis, is a tropical disease that evolves through distinct clinical stages. It ultimately results in meningoencephalitis, coma, and ...

Among these diseases is the infamous sleeping sickness, caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei. This parasite is transmitted to humans and animals through the bite of the tsetse fly. In humans ...

LSTM's Dr Jennifer Lord is first author on a paper looking at the impact of climate change on the vectors of sleeping sickness in Africa.

In 2004, when physician Dr. Wilfried Mutombo began treating patients diagnosed with sleeping sickness, the available treatments were themselves horrific and sometimes deadly. "The widely available ...

In a small trial, an experimental medicine was 100 per cent effective at ridding the parasite that causes sleeping sickness from the bodies of people with an early to intermediate infection ...

Now, a new oral drug has emerged that is 95% effective at curing sleeping sickness with just one dose. The results of clinical trials for this new drug, acoziborole, were published in The Lancet ...