MUTARE, Zimbabwe, Nov 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Over the last decade, cattle farmers in the Zambezi Valley, in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland West province, have noticed an odd thing. Tsetse flies, ...
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 study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases ...
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How a country wiped out sleeping sickness - the disease where a deadly drug is the cure
Before you know it you are awake all night, chucking books across rooms and laughing uncontrollably. This is what happens when sleeping sickness is left untreated, and before it inevitably kills you.
Mosquitoes, ticks, lice, kissing bugs and tsetse flies are all looking to grab a bite ... of you. Chances are you’ve got one of these bloodsuckers lurking nearby. Mosquitoes, ticks, lice, kissing bugs ...
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