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 ...

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.

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Chagas disease is responsible for thousands of deaths annually. The tsetse fly is a dangerous insect that spreads African ...

St. Louis last week appeared to have established its title as the breeding spot for a special kind of sleeping sickness. This type of encephalitis first appeared four years ago at St. Louis ...

Scientists identify a key gene in the transmission of deadly African sleeping sickness Apr 10, 2019 Cryo-EM structures show how Trypanosomes escape the human innate immune response ...

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 ...

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 ...