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 ...

While the events of the story are fantastically fictional, the sleeping sickness which resulted from Dream’s long imprisonment bears a striking resemblance to real-life events. In the comic, Dream is ...

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, ...

DALLAS - Jan. 4, 2018 - Sleeping sickness could use a more encompassing moniker. An international study from the O'Donnell Brain Institute shows one of Africa's most lethal diseases is actually a ...

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 ...

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 ...