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.

A handful of patients in Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, as well as foreign travellers, have now been treated with a medicine that is revolutionizing care for patients with ...

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 ...

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 ...

KENYA - Kenya's success in the fight against deadly sleeping sickness marks a milestone in the African continent's battle to eradicate neglected tropical diseases. Kenya has been officially recognised ...

Down on St. Louis last month swept the fingers of a dreaded plague. At widely-separated spots in & around the city people began to grow drowsy, vomit, feel their heads ache. After 24 hr. their necks ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French healthcare company Sanofi announced on Tuesday a renewal of its partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight neglected tropical diseases and to eliminate ...