Researchers have discovered how microbes responsible for human African sleeping sickness produce sex cells. Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered how microbes responsible for human ...

Thanks to efforts by MSF, the immediate future for those with sleeping sickness looks considerably brighter than the recent past, but the long-term prognosis isn't clear. The story of the reemergence ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...

Among the trypanosomes' weapons of woe is African sleeping sickness, which threatens more than 60 million people in 36 countries in sub-Saharan regions. The World Health Organization estimates that ...

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 ...

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 body ...

Parasites that cause the deadly illness known as sleeping sickness can spread beyond their native Africa as a result of mutations to key genes, a study shows. A parasite which has devastating impacts ...

Sepsis, a microbial infection that’s overwhelming, remains one of the most significant sources of morbidity and mortality. In the U.S., “black individuals” have both a greater risk of hospitalization ...

A multi-center, open-level, phase II/III clinical trial has recently been conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the oral antimicrobial drug acoziborole in patients with human African ...

Researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that enables trypanosomes to reach the salivary glands of the flies. LMU researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that ...

A drug developed in the 1990s as a treatment for African sleeping sickness has been newly found to be effective in treating type 1 diabetes. This is being hailed as a case of 'drug repurposing,' where ...