A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

Chiara Fiorillo People have been warned about the risks of a potentially fatal but little-known disease, called human African ...

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

African sleeping sickness—also known as human African trypanosomiasis—is a neglected tropical disease that is usually fatal to humans if untreated. While treatment campaigns and tsetse fly ...

A tsetse bite can happen quickly and without much warning, and the fly injects saliva containing anticoagulants to prevent blood ... parasite that causes African sleeping sickness.

Get ready to explore one of Africa's most notorious insects: the tsetse fly. These tiny flies may not look like much, but they play a major role in spreading sleeping sickness, aka human African ...

These tiny flies may not look like much, but they play a major role in spreading sleeping sickness, aka human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). That's right, these little pests aren't just a nuisance ...

This species is more responsible for the transmission of human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness). Forest species, such as Glossina fuscipes ... and the fly injects saliva containing ...

This species is more responsible for the transmission of human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness ... saliva containing anticoagulants to prevent blood from clotting while it feeds.