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 ISTA 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 ISTSleeping 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