Saturday, 8 December 2012

Trial for New Pill to Cure Sleeping Sickness may Help Thousands of Africans

A nonprofit pharmaceutical group will be testing out a new pill that could help tens of thousands of Africans who suffer from a life-threatening sleeping sickness. "This is a major step in research and development for neglected tropical diseases," said Bernard Pecoul, who heads the organisation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). Sleeping sickness, also known as human African trypanosomiasis, is transmitted by tsetse flies found in 36 sub-Saharan ...

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