During an exam, doctors will likely ask about a person’s history of exposure. This means asking whether the individual lives in or has visited areas where sleeping sickness is common as well as ...

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 ...

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.

Data from the Ministry of Health shows the last case of sleeping sickness in an indigenous person was detected in 2009 in Busia county. However, most recently, there have been cases among tourists ...

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.