SLEEPING SICKNESS, or African lethargy, is a disease the history ... west coast of Africa from the mouth of the Senegal to as far south as S. Paolo de Loanda. Cases have also occurred in the ...

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 ...

Research found that black people have a genetic variation which emerged to protect the body from a parasitic disease called trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. This disease was common in the ...

Parasites that cause the deadly illness known as sleeping sickness can spread beyond their native Africa as a result of ... have been detected in Asia, South America and southern Europe.

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related ...