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 ...

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health ...

However, the region also grapples with a huge burden of Malaria and scientists state it's easy to mistake sleeping sickness symptoms with malaria. Executive Director of the Foundation for ...