African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is a disease caused by a parasite and spread by the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa. Infections begin with mild to moderate symptoms like fever and ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

An outbreak of sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica), not to be dignified as ” epidemic,” is engaging the attention of New York health authorities. Since January 1 over 112 deaths from ...

Tsetse fly. It transmits parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana disease in animals. [iStockphoto] Tsetse flies - which transmit tiny parasites that cause sleeping sickness in ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.