Fighting sleep: UGA discovery may lead to new treatments for deadly sleeping sickness

(University of Georgia) While its common name may make it sound almost whimsical, sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is in reality a potentially fatal parasitic infection that has ravaged populations in sub-Saharan Africa for decades, and it continues to infect thousands of people every year.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/uog-fsu011713.php

Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - January 17, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news