To evade our body's defenses, the parasite responsible for sleeping sickness uses a particular method. It modifies its own ...

Sleeping sickness, also known as trypanosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease, because of the problems it continues to ...

Authorities say guides would fake emergencies to bill international insurance for helicopter rescues and treatment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sleeping sickness is contracted through a parasite spread by the tsetse fly. Cases of sleeping sickness are steadily declining, ...

To survive in the human bloodstream, the African trypanosome parasite wears a "cloak" made of proteins known as a variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). The study, published in Nature Microbiology, ...

To survive in the human bloodstream, the African trypanosome parasite wears a “cloak” made of proteins known as a variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). The study, published in Nature Microbiology, ...

Sleeping sickness has been killing people across Africa for generations. A disease with no vaccine, spread by the bite of a tsetse fly, it was once treated with injections of an arsenic derivative, a ...

Sleeping sickness is a notorious disease — immortalized in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. A single bite from a tsetse fly carrying the parasite is all it takes to infect someone. Without treatment ...