Sentences with phrase «sleeping sickness»
Current treatment of sleeping sickness relies primarily on four drugs.
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What do you know about proteins from the organism that causes sleeping sickness?
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.
There were 6,314 new cases of African sleeping sickness in 2013.
A new diagnostic test developed from research at the Universities of Cambridge and Dundee has been launched with the aim of helping eliminate the disease known as African sleeping sickness.
«We are hopeful that by solving the riddle of the putrid camel urine, these new insights have unearthed a potential target for anti-trypanosome therapies, which are badly needed as sleeping sickness continues to claim a huge number of lives in sub-Saharan Africa.»
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.
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.
Consider as well those diseases thought of as «just» tropical because they are transmitted by tropical vectors: malaria transmitted by mosquitoes, sleeping sickness spread by tsetse flies, and Chagas» disease (associated with edema, fever, and heart disease) spread by kissing bugs.
«We recommend that control programmes use a combined medical and vector control strategy to help combat sleeping sickness.»
Tsetse flies were once an insidious pest in Zimbabwe, spreading pathogens responsible for deadly sleeping sickness in man and a similar disease called nagana in cattle, diminishing milk yields and wiping out herds.
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.
A sinister string of beads made by the organisms that cause sleeping sickness helps the parasite both elude our defenses and make us sick
But generally speaking, in the villa, I think I must have caught Sleeping Sickness from the mosquitoes on display...
Actually we get far less sleeping sickness here than they do in Tanganyika, only 102 cases out of 550,000 people two years ago.»
Mass distribution of medications, international partnerships and targeted research are on track to eradicate sleeping sickness, Guinea worm and other ancient ailments
A new hope is emerging for eliminating sleeping sickness, which, despite a significant decrease in the 20th century, remains a major concern in Sub-Saharan Africa and a neglected tropical disease.
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.
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].
«Deadly sleeping sickness set to be eliminated in six years.»
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.
Modern medicine has made important strides in combating sleeping sickness: a debilitating and sometimes deadly parasitical disease.
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.
«The whole signaling thing, people are very excited about that,» Hajduk said, «whether it's infectious disease or cancer or specific therapeutic development» to treat sleeping sickness.
«How trypanosome parasites communicate with each other: Findings could impact how sleeping sickness is treated.»
«In the future, we hope our structural studies will provide some basis for drug design that might be used to control sleeping sickness in Africa,» says Dong, who has similar goals for his work with toxoplasmosis and malaria parasites.
1 By contrast, the native Africans exhibited a very high tolerance to infectious disease including malaria carried by mosquitos, typhus and fevers transmitted by lice and sleeping sickness borne by the tsetse fly.
Cemetery of Splendour — Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / United Kingdom / France / Germany / Malaysia North American Premiere A young medium and a middle - aged hospital volunteer investigate a case of mass sleeping sickness that may have supernatural roots in the gorgeous, mysterious, and gently humourous new film from Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives).
This new commission develops from Phinthong's ongoing research in Africa, including Sleeping Sickness (2012) for dOCUMENTA (13)-- attempting to counter a deadly disease transmitted throughout Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia by the tsetse fly, with an ecological fly trap produced by a Thai company and deployed by local people.
The trypanosome parasites that cause African sleeping sickness are awesome adversaries.
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.
Fortunately her parents had sensibly had their daughter vaccinated against sleeping sickness, and it had no effect.
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.
A mysterious sleeping sickness is afflicting royal families, and the cure appears to lie with the old Heart Forger and bringing down the remaining Faceless leaders.
One focus of her work has been parasites that cause diseases endemic to tropical climates, such as sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and river blindness.
«Targeted nanoparticles can overcome drug resistance in trypanosomes: A high - tech approach to combat sleeping sickness and potentially other neglected diseases.»
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.
«This community of researchers across Africa, Europe, North America and Asia has created a valuable research tool for tackling the devastating spread of sleeping sickness.»
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.
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...
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.
Eve's research is focused on malaria, schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.
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.
More than 4,000 flies were captured, of which 30 % — mostly tsetse flies, which spread African sleeping sickness — were engorged with blood.
The number of cases of sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) fell from 37,000 new cases in 1999 to under 3,000 in 2015.
In Africa, those who have two specific variants of the gene gain some protection against sleeping sickness, which is caused by an environmental parasite.