A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

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 ...

A small clinical trial in Uganda, conducted within a long-established Medecins Sans Frontieres treatment program for African sleeping sickness, has found that a new combination treatment using the ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.

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. The findings reveal that climate change ...

American trypanosomiasis, also known as Chagas disease (ChD), and human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, are distinct diseases caused by different species of parasitic ...

Chad has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, a fly-borne tropical disease also known as sleeping sickness, the World Health Organization recently announced. The elimination marks a milestone for ...

More than 300 participants from across Africa are meeting this week in Kenya, to discuss ways of tackling the African Trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness or Nagana. The disease is ...

By Milliam MurigiScientists have developed a new tsetse fly repellent that reduces fly attraction to livestock by up to 90 per cent, offering fresh hope in the fight against livestock diseases across ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases ...

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 ...