The World Health Organisation has warned people about the risks of contracting a disease commonly known as "sleeping sickness", which can be fatal without treatment. Human African trypanosomiasis ...

Tsetse fly. It transmits parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana disease in animals. [iStockphoto] Tsetse flies - which transmit tiny parasites that cause sleeping sickness in ...

Increased funding and new public health policies for sickle cell research are needed to ease the burden on low-income nations ...

Sleeping sickness has been termed “the colonial disease” because of its inextricable links with the European scramble for Africa. When the British established Uganda as a protectorate, they displaced ...

Ehrlich was looking for a cure or treatment for "sleeping sickness," a disease caused by a microbe. He found that a chemical called Atoxyl worked well but was a fairly strong arsenic compound ...

Some people of West African of descent face a higher risk of renal failure. New drugs based on gene research may help right ...

Fetter, Bruce 1993. Pease Porridge in a Pot: The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa. History in Africa, Vol. 20, Issue. , p. 43.

It is also used to diagnose malaria and neglected diseases such as leishmaniasis, and human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness. Eiken developed these tests with FIND ...

Along with mosquito season comes a rise in potentially fatal mosquito-borne illnesses in horses, including West Nile Virus ...

Sleeping late on the weekends is a natural ... the weekends were found to have a 20% lower risk of developing heart disease — including ischemic heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation ...

Pre-existing medical conditions, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and Parkinson’s disease, can make you more susceptible to motion sickness, according to Cleveland Clinic.