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 ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended two drugs for the treatment of schistosomiasis and sleeping sickness for use outside of the European Union. The medicines were submitted through a ...

Tsetse fly. It transmits parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana disease in animals. [iStockphoto] Tsetse flies - which transmit tiny parasites that cause sleeping sickness in ...

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 ...

For the past two decades, large multinational pharmaceutical companies have increasingly withdrawn from researching medicines ...

St. Louis last week appeared to have established its title as the breeding spot for a special kind of sleeping sickness. This type of encephalitis first appeared four years ago at St. Louis, laid ...