Sleeping sickness

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Synopsis: 5. medicine & health: 1. diseases: Diseases: Sleep disorders: Sleeping sickness:


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The drug has a long history of use in serious parasitic diseases such as malaria African sleeping sickness and PCP a common infection in HIV/AIDS.


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Potential new treatments for deadly sleeping sicknesswhile its common name may make it sound almost whimsical sleeping sickness

Few drugs have been developed to treat sleeping sickness since the 1940s and those still in use are highly toxic sometimes causing painful side effects and even death.

Now that we better understand this critical pathway we may begin thinking about new therapies for sleeping sickness.

Many previous global efforts to prevent transmission of sleeping sickness have focused on controlling or eradicating the tsetse fly

and pigs may fall victim to nagana the animal version of sleeping sickness which when translated from Zulu means depressed in spirit.

but animal sleeping sickness has made it very difficult for many people in this region to establish strong agriculture Docampo said.

Docampo and his colleagues are also confident that their discovery will have applications beyond the treatment of sleeping sickness.


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