Getting enough sleep can help protect you from getting sick. “Sleep is critically important to maintaining a healthy immune system, so we need to sleep enough. We also need to have good timing of our ...

LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) - British scientists have discovered a new way of tackling the fatal parasitic disease African sleeping sickness which they say could pave the way for the development of ...

A handful of patients in Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, as well as foreign travellers, have now been treated with a medicine that is revolutionizing care for patients with ...

Sleeping sickness, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis, is a serious disease that mainly affects people in parts of Africa. It can be deadly if not treated, but it is preventable and curable ...

Sleep experts explain what sleep hygiene really means—and how small changes to your routine and environment can lead to better rest and better health.

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. A Trypanosomiasis vaccine. [iStockphoto] The flies' infestation was aggravated by the encroachment of settlements to ...

African Sleeping Sickness is a fatal disease transmitted by an infected tsetse fly. When the fly bites a human, parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes enter the bloodstream, where they multiply and ...

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The investigative minds at How to Survive outline precautions during a sleeping sickness outbreak devastating a village.

Down on St. Louis last month swept the fingers of a dreaded plague. At widely-separated spots in & around the city people began to grow drowsy, vomit, feel their heads ache. After 24 hr. their necks ...