Sentences with phrase «of sleeping sickness»

This parasite belongs to the subgenus Trypanozoon that also includes the agent of sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma brucei) and surra (Trypanosoma evansi).

New research suggests that the parasite responsible for the vast majority of cases of sleeping sickness (red) might be harder to eliminate than previously thought.

Strategies which rely only on self - reporting of illness and screening of low - risk individuals are unlikely to lead to elimination of sleeping sickness transmission by 2030, and delay elimination until the next century.

Current treatment of sleeping sickness relies primarily on four drugs.

The number of cases of sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) fell from 37,000 new cases in 1999 to under 3,000 in 2015.

A lecturer with the Faculty of Vetenary Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Shuaibu Mohammed, has revealed that there are about 70,000 cases of sleeping sickness in Nigeria every year.

Not exact matches

«This sickness is not unto death» (John 11:4), and yet Lazarus died; for when the disciples misunderstood the words which Christ adjoined later, «Lazarus our friend is asleep, but I go to wake him out of his sleep» (11:11), He said plainly, «Lazarus is dead» (11:14).

About ten years ago, when I was also going through the worst of my years of sickness, I was driven into such a craze from yet another night of no sleep, that I decided I needed a little help in the form of a pill to get some relief.

Actually we get far less sleeping sickness here than they do in Tanganyika, only 102 cases out of 550,000 people two years ago.»

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.

finally after a bought of sickness we just decided we'd let him sleep until he needed us and didn't wake him for the df.

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.

* Reduced morning sickness * Improved sleeping patterns * Shorter, pain - free and more controlled labour process * Reduced stress and anxiety * Reduction of tension and discomfort * Positive thinkings regarding pregnancy and Childbirth * Stronger bond between the mother and her baby * Less likelihood of further medication * Quicker and better recovery * Happier and calmer babies with better sleeping patterns.

When the snuggles for sickness become part of her routine in between sleep cycles.

Sickness was my primary setback — around the end of the first 10 - day sleep program period, both babies developed low - grade fevers and green runny noses.

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.

Women with a severe form of morning sickness who take antihistamines to help them sleep through their debilitating nausea are significantly more likely to experience adverse pregnancy outcomes, including low birth weight babies and premature births, a UCLA study has found.

Of the Iron Age individuals, three carry at least one Duffy null allele, protecting against malaria, and two have at least one sleeping - sickness - resistance variant in the APOL1 gene.

More than 4,000 flies were captured, of which 30 % — mostly tsetse flies, which spread African sleeping sickness — were engorged with blood.

Medzhitov's Lab is now looking at the effects of another common sickness behavior — changes in sleep patterns — on how the immune system fights infection.

Mass distribution of medications, international partnerships and targeted research are on track to eradicate sleeping sickness, Guinea worm and other ancient ailments

Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by tsetse flies and threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Asleep By Molly Caldwell Crosby (Penguin Group) Crosby's harrowing account traces seven case histories during the early - 1900s epidemic of encephalitis lethargica, a sleeping sickness.

It's a tsetse fly, the carrier of the single - celled parasites that cause sleeping sickness.

New research suggests that sleeping 7 to 8 hours per night is associated with the lowest risk of absence from work due to sickness.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — It's far from the ideal therapy, but scientists say a new combination of two old drugs is an important step forward in the fight against sleeping sickness, a long - neglected tropical disease.

Sleeping sickness, caused by two subspecies of the Trypanosoma brucei unicellular parasite and transmitted by tsetse flies, affects an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 people annually in Africa.

Gambian sleeping sickness — a deadly parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies — could be eliminated in six years in key regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to new research by the University of Warwick.

In 2012, the World Health Organization set two public health goals for the control of Gambian sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease spread by the tsetse fly.

Further analysis found that the optimal sleep duration with the lowest risk of sickness absence from work was between 7 and 8 hours per night: 7 hours, 38 minutes for women and 7 hours, 46 minutes for men.

«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.

SHEKO CATTLE: Only 2,400 of this Ethiopian breed remain, despite the fact that they are resistant to trypansomosis, a sleeping sickness that kills both cattle and people.

They found that a two - pronged approach — integrating active screening and vector control — could substantially speed up the elimination of Gambian sleeping sickness in high burden areas of DRC.

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].

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.

She's speaking of sub-Saharan Africa's Glossina flies» «really cool biology,» not their ability to spread the parasite that gives humans and some other vertebrates potentially fatal sleeping sickness.

Since then, scientists have used the technique to eradicate the screwworm fly, which causes lesions on livestock, from North and Central America; the tsetse fly, which brings sleeping sickness, from Zanzibar; and the pink bollworm, a pest of cotton, from California.

In fact, the researchers say, the loss of wildlife habitat in Africa — and not human treatment programs — could be the main reason that sleeping sickness disease, usually called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is now on the retreat.

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.

«But the differences discovered in the distribution machinery in parasites and humans are of particular interest for developing new medicines against the sleeping sickness and other illnesses caused by trypanosomes in humans and animals.»

It may also lead to improved therapies to fight sleeping sickness; current medications used to combat the disease have improved over the past decade but still include an old arsenic - based drug that kills between 5 and 10 percent of the people receiving treatment, said the study's senior author Stephen Hajduk, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

To request a copy of the study, «Sleep and Sickness Absence: A Nationally Representative Register - Based Follow - Up Study,» and the commentary, «Working with Poor Sleep,» or to arrange an interview with the study author or an AASM spokesperson, please contact Communications Coordinator Lynn Celmer at 630-737-9700, ext. 9364, or [email protected].

There were 6,314 new cases of African sleeping sickness in 2013.

DARIEN, IL — New research suggests that sleeping 7 to 8 hours per night is associated with the lowest risk of absence from work due to sickness.

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.

Tsetse are the insect vector of the trypanosomiasis parasite which causes disease in animals (with major knock - on effects on the farmers who are financially dependent on their livestock), and sleeping sickness in people (fatal when not properly treated).

After the initial diagnosis, my days consisted of doctor's visits, chemotherapy, scans, sleep, sickness, and fear.