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 ...

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

Most of the efforts against sleeping sickness have focused on T. b. gambiense, which takes months or even years to cause acute symptoms, and diagnosis during the initial stages of infection can be ...