African sleeping sickness, also known as trypanosomiasis and human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is a parasitic infection carried by tsetse, also known as tsetse flies. There are two versions of the ...

The patient arrived at the hospital one hot night in Masi-Manimba, an agricultural town unfurled along the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Lukula River. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sleeping sickness creates a metabolic 'fingerprint' in the blood and urine, which could enable a new test to be developed to diagnose the disease, according to new research published today in the ...

Over four million people in northern Kenya are facing severe hunger as the worst drought in 40 years devastates the Horn of Africa - Copyright AFP Anatolii Stepanov ...

A single dose of oral acoziborole proved to be efficacious and safe for adults and adolescents with gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as "sleeping sickness," suggesting its ...

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 ...

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 ...