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 handful of patients in Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, as well as foreign travellers, have now been treated with a medicine that is revolutionizing care for patients with ...

African Sleeping Sickness is a fatal disease transmitted by an infected tsetse fly. When the fly bites a human, parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes enter the bloodstream, where they multiply and ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Sleeping Sickness The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. Each day, the player ...

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 ...

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 ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive outline precautions during a sleeping sickness outbreak devastating a village.

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 ...

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 ...

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