Drug breakthrough in fight against African sleeping sickness

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Drug breakthrough in fight against African sleeping sickness

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in identifying new treatments for a fatal disease which infects tens of thousands of Africans each year. Their findings describe a new approach to tackling the fatal parasitic disease human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), commonly known as sleeping sickness due to disturbance of the sleep cycle caused by parasites infecting the brain.

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Tags: Parasite, Sleeping Sickness, Brain, Sleep, Disease and Condition, Drug, Scientist