Sleeping Sickness

Skin may also be responsible for transmitting deadly African sleeping sickness!

The disease kills thousands in Sub-Saharan Africa every year, the diagnosis of which is confirmed through the presence of parasites in the blood.

Dec 19, 2016, 16:47 PM IST

A drug that can fight three deadly parasitic infections!

 The new drug, described as a 'new hope', can target an enzyme common to the parasites causing all three infections – sleping sickness, chagas disease and leishmaniasis.

Aug 12, 2016, 16:02 PM IST

Sleeping sickness parasite owes extinction to “stagnant sex life”

A study has found that the sleeping sickness parasite has not had sex for more than 10,000 years.

Jan 26, 2016, 15:57 PM IST