According to Phys.org, researchers from France and Africa have developed a new and improved method for detecting trypanosome ...

Health experts are warning of a potentially fatal but little-known disease called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) - also known as "sleeping sickness" ...

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by infected tsetse flies.

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 ...

A single dose of oral acoziborole proved to be efficacious and safe for adults and adolescents with gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as "sleeping sickness," suggesting its ...

Lethargic encephalitis has not the slightest connection with African sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis). The name is more appropriate to the former disease than to the latter.

A single oral dose of acoziborole proved effective for human African trypanosomiasis in a clinical trial. The drug has potential to greatly simplify and expand treatment for sleeping sickness.

African Sleeping Sickness: A Recurring Epidemic African trypanosomiasis is making an unwelcome comeback. But unlike other returning diseases, this one has a drug treatment—eflornithine—that ...

Although African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, has fallen in prominence to become extremely rare, the drug acoziborole may help the World Health Organization's goal of ...

As parasites adapt to a warming world, an infectious disease expert at Rochester Institute of Technology has his eye on the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa. The biting fly transmits Trypanosomiasis, ...

“This validation makes Togo the first country in Africa to have eliminated human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness,” said Hon Moustafa Mijiyawa, Minister of Health and Public Hygiene.