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Twenty-two of the 26 provinces that make up the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported human African trypanosomiasis in 2021. Last year, the country recorded 387 cases.
These...
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved fexinidazole as the first all-oral treatment for both stages of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis).
Fexinidazole was...
African trypanosomiasis (also known as sleeping sickness) is a disease transmitted by tsetse flies and is fatal to humans and other animals; however, there is currently no vaccine, this disease is mainly...
Sanofi has signed on December 10th a renewed partnership agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO), consolidating a 20-year collaboration to fight some of the most Neglected Tropical Diseases...
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced last week that the West African nation of Togo has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness”...
Lancaster University researchers have shed light on how the parasite which causes sleeping sickness multiples inside its host.
Human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, only occurs in Sub-Saharan...
Filarial worms are long thread like worms that live in the tissue and body cavities of vertebrates. Their eggs mature into tiny larvae called microfilariae. There are at least eight filarids that are of...
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa are advising travellers returning from the southern African region should be aware of a number of infectious disease risks related to travel...
A team of Clemson University researchers wants to protect humans and other mammals from the debilitating and even deadly effects of African sleeping sickness.
James Morris, a Clemson professor in the College...
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive scientific opinion of fexinidazole, the first all-oral treatment that has been shown to be...
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