Researchers have developed a new toolkit for detecting trypanosome parasites in livestock, aiding efforts to monitor and ...

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 ...

Acute sleeping sickness – the treatment is almost as horrific as the disease. But now there is encouraging news about an oral medication – one that's also been used for chronic sleeping ...

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 ...

The patient, a 27-year-old man, had been brought in by a medical team screening villagers for sleeping sickness, a deadly parasitic disease spread via the bite of a blood-feeding fly. Since the ...

A single pill may be 100 per cent effective at treating early-to-intermediate stage sleeping sickness. In a small trial, people with this stage of sleeping sickness showed no signs of having the ...

This often fatal disease found in many African countries is painful and lengthy to treat. But a single oral dose proved incredibly effective in a... In 2004, when physician Dr. Wilfried Mutombo ...