New discovery could help combat the spread of sleeping sickness

Silencing signals sent by sleeping sickness parasite could aid sleeping sickness fightInsights into how the parasites that cause the disease are able to communicate with one another could help limit the spread of the infection.The findings suggest that new drugs could be designed to disrupt the flow of messages sent between these infectious microorganisms.Sleeping sickness - so named because it disrupts sleep patterns - is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, and more than 69 million people in Africa are at risk of infection.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news