Acute sleeping sickness – the treatment is almost as horrific as the disease. But now there is encouraging news about an oral medication – one that's also been used for chronic sleeping sickness to ...

In 2004, when physician Dr. Wilfried Mutombo began treating patients diagnosed with sleeping sickness, the available treatments were themselves horrific and sometimes deadly. "The widely available ...

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The first treatment for sleeping sickness that relies on pills alone was approved Friday by Europe’s drug regulatory agency, paving the way for use in Africa, the last bastion of the horrific disease.

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 ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended two drugs for the treatment of schistosomiasis and sleeping sickness for use outside of the European Union. The medicines were submitted through a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have discovered a new way of tackling the fatal parasitic disease African sleeping sickness which they say could pave the way for the development of safe, ...

From England was reported a sharp increase in the number of cases of the new sleeping sickness (Encephalitis lethargica). Every week of 1924 has revealed, for that matter, a relentless increase. For ...

This often fatal disease found in many African countries is painful and lengthy to treat. But a single oral dose proved incredibly effective in a... In 2004, when physician Dr. Wilfried Mutombo began ...