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 ...

IDAHO FALLS — A local 10-year-old girl was asleep for her 26 consecutive day with what was called “sleeping sickness,” the Idaho Falls Post Register reported on March 18, 1951. Anita Meppen, daughter ...

An outbreak of sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica), not to be dignified as ” epidemic,” is engaging the attention of New York health authorities. Since January 1 over 112 deaths from ...

Sleeping sickness initially manifests as fever, headaches, joint pain and itching. After the parasite reaches the central nervous system, the disease can progress to spur severe neurological symptoms.

Ehrlich was looking for a cure or treatment for "sleeping sickness," a disease caused by a microbe. He found that a chemical called Atoxyl worked well but was a fairly strong arsenic compound ...

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 ...

Also known as sleeping sickness, eastern equine encephalitis can spread to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito, albeit rarely. An average of just 11 human cases of eastern equine ...

which is transmitted via tsetse flies and causes African sleeping sickness in humans and nagana pest in animals. "Trypanosomes are masters at hiding from the immune system through antigenic ...

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.