Exciting results on a new sleeping sickness drug: 95% effective in late stage patients, and 100% effective in those diagnosed early in a trial in the DRC & Guinea. Could this be the beginning of the end of the disease?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/new-cure-sleeping-sickness-could-eliminate-nightmare-disease/

Also more stunning 🦟 pics from Simon Townsley..

#neglecteddiseases #sleepingsickness #globalhealth #tsetseflies

New cure for sleeping sickness could eliminate ‘nightmare disease’

The illness can cause debilitating disruption of sleep patterns, uncontrollable aggression and psychosis – and is fatal without treatment

The Telegraph
African sleeping sickness: How the pathogen colonizes tsetse flies

LMU researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that enables trypanosomes to reach the salivary glands of the flies.

Phys.org