Background. Treatment of late-stage human African typanosomiasis (HAT) with melarsoprol can be improved by shortening the regimen. A previous trial demonstrated the safety and efficacy of a 10-day ...

Game parks in Tanzania have long been considered to be low-risk areas for African trypanosomiasis [3]). However, in February 2001, two index patients and seven additional European and South African ...

Researchers are working to find the fastest way possible to treat and cure human African trypanosomiasis, long referred to as sleeping sickness. Human African trypanosomiasis, or HAT, is a tropical ...

African sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis) is a tropical disease that is endemic in many areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, with a prevalence of around ~60 million people worldwide. In the ...

Researchers have turned a fungus into a disease-curing factory through modern genetic engineering and patience. The natural antibiotic is a promising cure for a neglected tropical disease called human ...

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health problem in Guinea, the French Research Institute for Development (IRD) said ...

Chad has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, a fly-borne tropical disease also known as sleeping sickness, the World Health Organization recently announced. The elimination marks a milestone for ...

A new state-of-the-art diagnostic test for animal African trypanosomiasis could detect sentinels of infection in domestic animals and aid control efforts Researchers have developed a new toolkit for ...

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A herdsman sprays cattle with insecticide to prevent tsetse fly infestation during the Kenya Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council visit to tsetse fly-prone areas in Kina, Isiolo county.

Game parks in Tanzania have long been considered to be at low risk for African trypanosomiasis; however, nine cases of the disease associated with these parks were recently reported. The outbreak was ...