Trypanosomiasis

Local officials in central-eastern Maniema Province said sleeping sickness, a fatal disease transmitted by the tsetse fly and formally known as trypanosomiasis, was on the rise with at least 120 new cases reported in 2001. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The disease, properly called trypanosomiasis (trip'uh-noh-soh-my'uh-sis), is commonly called "African sleeping sickness." ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1963)

One of the worst scourges of Africa and one that is to-day attracting world-wide attention is the disease known as trypanosomiasis, the terminal phase of which is sleeping sickness, one of the most ghastly diseases that we know. ❋ Rennie Wilbur Doane (N/A)

Sleeping sickness: Also known as trypanosomiasis, this disease affects people and animals. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Dr. Grace Murilla is the Kenyan principal investigator with a University of North Carolina-led consortium developing drugs to treat parasitic diseases such as trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Around 300,000 people in Africa are thought to have sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis which is fatal unless treated. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Some are raised even in areas where domestic cattle cannot survive because of afflictions such as trypanosomiasis and foot-and-mouth disease. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, debilitates before it kills. ❋ AP (2010)

Other animals are able to remain fit and healthy despite the presence of trypanosomiasis. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya have been working on the cattle equivalent of the disease trypanosomiasis. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is important because it provids a way of selective guiding and breeding for resistance to trypanosomiasis. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What trypanosomiasis does is remove that whole vital slice from agricultural systems. ❋ Unknown (2011)

African trypanosomiasis disease, also known as sleeping sickness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1990 Sanofi-Aventis developed the drug Ornidyl (eflornithine) which is safe and effective against trypanosomiasis but it was withdrawn from the market in 1995 because few poor subSaharan sufferers could afford it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Syphilis and trypanosomiasis are microbial diseases. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)