Sentences with phrase «sleeping sickness 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.

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.

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.

«Targeted nanoparticles can overcome drug resistance in trypanosomes: A high - tech approach to combat sleeping sickness and potentially other neglected diseases.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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).

(They're also susceptible to sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.)

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.