Sleeping sickness, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis, is a serious disease that mainly affects people in parts of Africa. It can be deadly if not treated, but it is preventable and curable ...

LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) - British scientists have discovered a new way of tackling the fatal parasitic disease African sleeping sickness which they say could pave the way for the development of ...

A small clinical trial in Uganda, conducted within a long-established Medecins Sans Frontieres treatment program for African sleeping sickness, has found that a new combination treatment using the ...

This image shows a three-dimensional map of the basic structural unit in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei’s flagellum, with various mechanical and motor proteins labeled. Millions of people worldwide ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. A Trypanosomiasis vaccine. [iStockphoto] The flies' infestation was aggravated by the encroachment of settlements to ...

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 diseases ...

Burundi, Egypt and Fiji eliminated trachoma; Guinea and Kenya eliminated sleeping sickness; and Niger became the first ...

Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasites have a complex evolutionary history and life cycle, which relies on tsetse ...

Prof. Joseph Mathu Ndung'u, Chancellor of JKUAT. He won the African Union Prestigious Excellence Award 2019. [Photo Courtesy] The Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology ...