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 body ...

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NEW YORK — European drug regulators on Friday endorsed a new and simpler treatment for sleeping sickness, in what could be a giant boost to efforts to eliminate the disease. A European Medicines ...

Sleeping sickness, also known as trypanosomiasis, is a neglected tropical disease, because of the problems it continues to cause for many communities in sub-Saharan Africa. It’s caused when a tsetse ...

To survive in the human bloodstream, the African trypanosome parasite wears a "cloak" made of proteins known as a variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). The study, published in Nature Microbiology, ...

Acute sleeping sickness – the treatment is almost as horrific as the disease. But now there is encouraging news about an oral medication – one that's also been used for chronic sleeping sickness to ...

A parasite that lives in human blood has been pulling off a strange trick for decades. It covers itself in a dense coat of proteins so the immune system struggles to recognize it, yet it somehow ...

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