Sentences with phrase «as sleeping sickness»

Human African Trypanosomiasis — also known as sleeping sickness — is a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly and provoked by Trypanosoma protozoans.

She was curious about whether zebra stripes were attractive to tabanids, a family of insects that includes tsetse flies and horseflies — notorious pests that can transmit illnesses such as sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.

Not exact matches

Their best guesses were either sleeping sickness (also known as trypanosomiasis) or «Rip Van Winkle disease» (officially known as Kleine - Levin syndrome), which sounded more kosher to me.

The time where most pregnant women experience some form of morning sickness (and maybe afternoon and evening as well), you're feeling like you could sleep for days, and you have no baby bump but feel bloated beyond relief.

I also had trouble sleeping and issues with my legs swelling, as well as really, really bad morning sickness in the first trimester.

Thinking back, I guess I was hoping that the citrus fruit cravings / morning sickness / sleep position preference / height of baby bump meant a girl, as some people said.

• Your child is under 12 months old • When you put your child down for a nap he plays, resists, or fusses for a while but always ends up sleeping for an hour or more • When you take your child for car rides during the day he usually falls asleep • If your child misses a nap he is fussy or acts tired until the next nap or bedtime • Your child is dealing with a change in his life (such as a new sibling, sickness, or starting daycare) that disrupts his nap schedule • Your child misses naps when you're on the go, but when you are at home he takes two good naps

It is also the main component in many sleep aids, including «nighttime» versions of cold medications, as well as motion sickness pills.

Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I (James I Univeristy, UJI) have developed new compounds for the treatment of infectious tropical diseases, such as malaria, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis.

Wolbachia appears even more attractive considering its potential application in controlling other insect - borne diseases, such as malaria and the tsetse fly's sleeping sickness.

Genzyme, for example, is committed to developing innovative therapies for diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness that have largely disappeared in the industrial nations but affect millions in Third World countries.

«Optimal sleep duration should be promoted, as very long and very short sleep indicate health problems and subsequent sickness absence,» said principal investigator Tea Lallukka, PhD, specialized researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

Such hardiness in the face of locally tough conditions is a hallmark of the regional versions of various livestock breeds, such as worm - resistant Red Maasai sheep [see video here] and Sheko cattle with their immunity to sleeping sickness [see video here].

Such is the case for the trypanosomes, the protists I discussed last time as the source of Chagas Disease, but which also cause sleeping sickness in Africa.

While scientists have known for years that African trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness, they've been left scratching their heads as to how these tiny single - celled organisms communicate.

Trypanosomes are single - celled parasites that cause diseases such as human African sleeping sickness and Nagana in animals.

Ullu was recognized for her lab's work with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, to uncover a novel mechanism of gene silencing known as RNA interference.

Cilia play important roles in nearly every human organ and also are essential for the survival of many parasites, such as trypanosoma brucei that causes African sleeping sickness, giving Dong's work the potential for wide influence.

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To elaborate, I take magnesium as a supplement daily and give it to my kids, I make a homemade magnesium oil that I rub on my kids feet each night to help with sleep, use homemade magnesium body butter for softer skin, and magnesium was instrumental in avoiding morning sickness in my last pregnancy.

In your pre-natal yoga tool kit, Tara will provide you with everything you need to settle common pregnancy woes, such as disturbed sleep, morning sickness, aches and pains, and a decrease in intimacy with your partner.

«Loud night breathing impacts forty percent of the adult population, it's a breathing sickness as a result of vibrations of the tissues in the back of the nostril and mouth,» says slumber down's independent sleep expert Sammy Margo.

In general, I ate and slept rather poorly plus I went through an extended period of heavy stress (love - sickness) after which I started to develop migraines, a sensitive throat and psoriasis as well.

We also offer horse vaccines, such as the West Nile Virus, Sleeping Sickness, Equine Influenza, and Rhinopneumonitis vaccines.