Between 1916 and 1930, an epidemic of Sleeping Sickness swept the globe, killing over half a million people. Discover the story of this forgotten disease and its devastating impact.

Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the ...

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis ...

The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a ...

What is sleeping sickness? The Human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, is a potentially fatal disease caused by parasites called Trypanosoma. These parasites are transmitted to humans ...

Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a blood meal. That’s the protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness in ...

General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has extended his congratulations to Guinea for successfully eliminating human African ...

Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.

( MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) World health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or ...

CONAKRY, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem, according to the World Health ...