The goal in the world of global health is to bring an end to this scourge by 2030. A new drug looks as if it could do the job.

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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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, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - An international team of scientists has deciphered the genetic code of the tsetse fly, the bloodsucking insect that spreads deadly African sleeping sickness, with the ...

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.