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 ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Currently, no vaccine or prophylactic drug exists for African trypanosomiasis. The initial symptoms are fatigue, high fever, headaches, and muscle aches. If not addressed, sleeping sickness can ...

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.