Wild animals may contribute to the resurgence of African sleeping sickness
Wild animals may be a key contributor to the continuing spread of African sleeping sickness, new research shows. The West African form of the disease, also known as Gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis, affects around 10,000 people in Africa every year and is deadly if left untreated. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Anti-sleeping sickness drives may also need to target animals
Efforts to eliminate sleeping sickness from humans without tackling the disease's animal hosts may only end in fresh outbreaks. (Source: SciDev.Net)
Source: SciDev.Net - January 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
A Wake-Up Call in the Fight Against Sleeping Sickness
Animals could play a crucial role in transmitting the tropical disease (Source: ScienceNOW)
Source: ScienceNOW - January 17, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Wild animals may contribute to the resurgence of African sleeping sickness
(Public Library of Science) Wild animals may be a key contributor to the continuing spread of African sleeping sickness, new research published in PLOS Computational Biology shows. The West African form of the disease, also known as Gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis, affects around 10,000 people in Africa every year and is deadly if left untreated. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - January 17, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
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. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - January 17, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Gothenburg researchers make world top 10
(University of Gothenburg) As a Scientific Highlight for 2012, the journal Science has listed the top ten scientific articles published in Science and Nature during the year. Researchers Richard Neutze and Gergely Katona of the University of Gothenburg are co-authors of one of the articles, which reports on the potential for identifying new medicines for sleeping sickness using X-ray lasers to investigate the structure of proteins at atomic level. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
How the stink of a waterbuck could prevent sleeping sickness in Kenya | Laila Ali
A collar worn by livestock containing animal odour repellent to the tsetse fly could transform the lives of farmers in KenyaThe tsetse fly, found in 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, can be a curse for smallholder farmers and their families. The flies carry the trypanosome parasite that can cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock. But a group of scientists in Nairobi is developing a powerful insect repellent using the stench of waterbucks, a type of large antelope.About two-thirds of Africa's population depend on small-scale agriculture, many of whom are livestock farmers. For these farmers, tsetse flie...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 15, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Laila Ali Tags: Farming World news Infectious diseases Pastoralism Kenya guardian.co.uk Medical research Features Animals Global development Environment Africa Agriculture Science Source Type: news
Gambia: New WHO Plan Targets the Demise of Sleeping Sickness
[Foroyaa]A meeting of experts and African health officials sets in motion a campaign spearheaded by WHO to free Africa from the grip of sleeping sickness. John Maurice reports. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 13, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news
DRC: Sleeping sickness patients at risk
PRESS RELEASE: Advances in the development of new diagnostic tests and treatment bode well for the fight against sleeping sickness, however, national control activities on the ground are crippled by a lack of sustainable funding. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - December 7, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
