African trypanosomiasis ... the individual lives in or has visited areas where sleeping sickness is common as well as looking for clinical signs of the disease and its stage. ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.

By Gift BritonAn oral treatment is now saving lives across East and Southern Africa, replacing painful injections and lengthy hospital stays for patients with a rare but deadly strain of sleeping ...