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 ...

Civil unrest in key endemic regions, such as the Central African Republic and southwestern Cameroon, has hindered disease ...

Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the pathogen ...

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health problem in Guinea, the French Research Institute for Development (IRD) said ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis ...

Guinea has officially joined Ghana, Togo, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, and Chad in eliminating human ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health ...

( MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) World health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or ...

The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a neglected ... spread by Tsetse flies. Symptoms may include fever ...

A comprehensive strategy that combines pharmacological advances, vector control, public outreach to raise awareness and ...

Over the course of several months, their symptoms developed from excruciating ... doctors found the group were suffering from sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), a parasitic ...

Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis commonly known as sleeping sickness as a public health problem according ...