The first treatment for sleeping sickness that relies on pills alone was approved Friday by Europe’s drug regulatory agency, paving the way for use in Africa, the last bastion of the horrific disease.

Although African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, has fallen in prominence to become extremely rare, the drug acoziborole may help the World Health Organization’s goal of eradicating ...

The parasite that leads to sleeping sickness can be lulled to sleep itself using a newly discovered pathway, according to research published online this week in EMBO reports. Trypanosoma brucei is a ...

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 ...

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 began ...

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 sickness to ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In Africa, Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), better known as sleeping sickness, ...

Africa, Latin America, and certain regions of Asia face a heavy burden: diseases transmitted by insects, such as mosquitoes or tsetse flies. These often neglected diseases do not just devastate public ...

From England was reported a sharp increase in the number of cases of the new sleeping sickness (Encephalitis lethargica). Every week of 1924 has revealed, for that matter, a relentless increase. For ...

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 ...

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 ...