Leprosy and elephantiasis: New cases could be prevented in 10 years
(University of Warwick) The life chances of over one billion people could be improved through examining the transmission of nine neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), an international consortium of researchers has argued. Leprosy, Elephantiasis and Sleeping Sickness are among nine tropical diseases targeted. Neglected tropical diseases affect over one billion people worldwide. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - October 21, 2015 Category: Biology Source Type: news
DRC: Going the extra mile to treat sleeping sickness
Travelling by jeep and motorbike, an MSF mobile medical team is making its way through a remote and insecure region of Democratic Republic of Congo to screen and treat people suffering from sleeping sickness. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - September 17, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Rob Source Type: news
Traveling the Extra Mile to Treat Sleeping Sickness in DRC
An MSF mobile medical team is making its way through a remote and insecure region of DRC to treat sleeping sickness.
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Source: MSF News - September 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Editorial Intern Source Type: news
Traveling the Extra Mile to Treat Sleeping Sickness in DRC
September 15, 2015
Traveling by jeep and motorbike, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mobile medical team is making its way through a remote and insecure region of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to screen and treat people suffering from sleeping sickness. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - September 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Editorial Intern Source Type: news
Africa: Tiny Flags Target African Tsetse Flies
[SciDev.Net] Handkerchief-sized blue flags covered in insecticide could trap and kill tsetse flies, offering a new and cheaper way to help eliminate sleeping sickness from Sub-Saharan Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 24, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tiny flags target African tsetse flies
The affordable method cuts tsetse numbers by 90 per cent, and may help tackle sleeping sickness. (Source: SciDev.Net)
Source: SciDev.Net - August 21, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
In The Fight Against Tsetse Flies, Blue Is The New Black
For some unknown reason, the insects that transmit sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa are attracted to the color blue. So scientists think blue flytraps could help wipe out the disease for good.» E-Mail This (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - August 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maanvi Singh Source Type: news
Did swine flu jabs give scores of children a sleeping sickness?
Scottish 16-year-old Chloe Gasson, pictured with mum Sandy Young, is one of 100 Britons believed to have been affected by narcolepsy as a result of receiving the Pandemrix vaccination for swine flu. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
VIDEO: Blue targets reduce sleeping sickness
The lure of a bright blue target is helping to reduce numbers of tsetse flies which pass on the parasite responsible for sleeping sickness. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - June 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Targeted nanoparticles can overcome drug resistance in trypanosomes
(PLOS) Sleeping sickness threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is considered fatal if untreated, but treatment options are limited. Existing drugs have serious side effects, and the parasites are developing resistance. A study published on June 25 in PLOS Pathogens reports a new way to circumvent drug resistance and lower the curative dose by delivering existing drugs directly into the parasite, a high-tech approach with potential applications to other infectious diseases. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - June 25, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
How dangerous liaisons between human and animal parasites generate new strains of disease
New strains of the human pathogen responsible for African sleeping sickness can arise by swapping genes between human and animal variants of the parasite, new research from the University of Bristol has found. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - May 13, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Research; Faculty of Science, Faculty of Science, School of Biological Sciences; Press Release Source Type: news
To survive, a parasite mixes and matches its disguises, study suggests
A detailed look at the African sleeping sickness parasite’s strategy for evading its hosts’ immune systems revealed that the blood parasites assume a surprising diversity of protein coat disguises. In fact, the number of disguises necessary to maintain a long-term infection appears to exceed the functional genes that encode them. More » (Source: The Rockefeller University Newswire)
Source: The Rockefeller University Newswire - March 26, 2015 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: pubaff Tags: Science News antigenic variation F. Nina Papavasiliou George Cross Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology Monical Mugnier parasitic infection sleeping sickness Trypanosoma brucei VSG Source Type: news
Global Health: How Ancient Cattle Herders Avoided Sleeping Sickness
A recent study suggests that some people were able to use areas free of tsetse flies to travel south from East Africa more than 2,000 years ago. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - March 23, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Tags: Bushmen Flies tsetse Cattle San people Sleeping Sickness Africa Source Type: news
Global Health: How Ancient Cattle Herders Avoided Sleeping Sickness
A recent study suggests that some people were able to use areas free of tsetse flies to travel south from East Africa more than 2,000 years ago. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Tags: Bushmen Flies tsetse Cattle San people Sleeping Sickness Africa Source Type: news
Virginia Tech researchers discover possible drug target to combat sleeping sickness
(Virginia Tech) Scientists identified a possible way to keep the parasite that transmits sleeping sickness from reproducing, reducing the health dangers to its human hosts. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - February 23, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
