The World Health Organization targeted the elimination of human sleeping sickness as a priority issue in 2012. In 2018, there were 977 reported cases down from 2,164 in 2016.

Health experts are warning of a potentially fatal but little-known disease called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) - also known as "sleeping sickness" ...

In research published by the French and African researchers, they shared more about their improvements to an existing mapping tool to track AAT and how it may help prevent the future spread of this ...

African sleeping sickness exists in two forms—West African and East African—dictated by the geographic range of the species of tsetse fly that spreads the parasite. Both infections begin with the ...

Sleeping sickness initially manifests as fever, headaches, joint pain and itching. After the parasite reaches the central nervous system, the disease can progress to spur severe neurological symptoms.

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 clinical trial, raising hopes of eradication.

Sleeping sickness initially manifests as fever, headaches, joint pain and itching. After the parasite reaches the central nervous system, the disease can progress to spur severe neurological symptoms.

Sleeping sickness, or Human African trypanosomiasis, has been eliminated as a public health problem in Guinea, with cases falling below one per 10,000 inhabitants in endemic areas.

Human sleeping sickness — African trypanosomiasis — is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected tsetse flies. Human ...

Raymond Alexander Kelser, Army Medical School bacteriologist, reported recently in Science that the yellow fever mosquito apparently transmits human sleeping sickness to rabbits. Last week his ...