BD and FIND Achieve Milestone in Global Battle Against MDR-TB Jun 23, 2009
FIND's disease portfolio currently includes tuberculosis, malaria and human African trypanosomiasis and current donors are the Bill da Gates Foundation, the European Union, the Government of the Netherlands, UNITAID, Irish Aid and other institutions and private donors ... human African trypanosomiasis. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Tsetse Fly Costs Agriculture Billions Annually May 13, 2009
Dakar Each year in Africa the tsetse fly causes more than US$4 billion in agriculture income losses, kills three million livestock and infects up to 75,000 people with trypanosomiasis, according to the UN. ... The head of the human African trypanosomiasis ("sleeping sickness") programme at the Geneva-based Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Joseph Ndung'u, told IRIN he left his position as director of the Kenyan Trypanosomiasis Research Institute in order to expand his work beyond... (allAfrica.com)
Tanzania combines beauty, culture with staggering problems Apr 29, 2009
After schistosomiasis and trypanosomiasis, I remember giggling nervously when she said plague. That at least I was familiar with. (Lompoc Record, CA)
Obama's Grandma Fighting Tsetse Fly Scourge Mar 10, 2009
Some 37 African countries are affected by tsetse and sleeping sickness or trypanosomiasis. An AU program against the disease has succeeded in wiping out the flies in Botswana and Namibia, the statement said. (Newsmax)
A massive killer Mar 29, 2008
The dipterous insect called the tsetse fly transmits a major African disease of cattle called nagana; and a tragic disease of humans called sleeping sickness, African trypanosomiasis or maladie sommeil ... Herbert S. Gasser, the Nobel laureate, once said: "From the beginning of Arab and European influence in the hinterland of tropical Africa, trypanosomiasis of man and animals has curbed the realization of human ambitions and the mobilization of the continent's vast resources.". (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Jump-start on slow trek to treatment for a disease Jan 9, 2008
"Sleeping sickness" is too benign a nickname for human African trypanosomiasis, which is caused by a protozoan spread by biting tsetse flies. When the parasites enter the brain, victims hallucinate wildly. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Fast Facts: Sudan Jan 1, 2008
Major infectious diseases: degree of risk: very high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: malaria, dengue fever, African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) are high risks in some locations water contact disease: schistosomiasis respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified among birds in this country or surrounding region; it poses a negligible risk... (CBS News -- World)
Company's aim: better drugs for world's poor Dec 27, 2007
The group is paying Scynexis $17 million over five years to help find safer medicines to treat sleeping sickness, also known as human African trypanosomiasis. Creating a new medicine would bolster Scynexis' reputation, but success would not translate into more money. (News & Observer)
Immtech Announces Pafuramidine (DB289) Program on Clinical Hold Dec 27, 2007
Immtech has advanced clinical programs that include new oral treatments for pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), malaria, and trypanosomiasis (African sleeping sickness), and a well defined, expanding library of compounds targeting hepatitis C, fungal infections, and bacterial infections. Immtech holds exclusive worldwide licenses to certain patents, patent applications and technology for products derived from a proprietary pharmaceutical platform. (PR Newswire)
Democratic Rep. of the Congo Dec 10, 2007
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 100,000 (2003 est.) 00000DF3 Major infectious diseases: degree of risk: very high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: malaria, plague, and African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) are high risks in some locations water contact disease: schistosomiasis (2007). Nationality: noun: Congolese (singular and plural) adjective: Congolese or Congo. (CBS News -- 60 minutes)
Immtech and BioAlliance Sign Licensing Agreement for Pafuramidine Dec 5, 2007
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Immtech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: ) announced today that the Company has granted an exclusive license to BioAlliance Pharma SA (Euronext Paris - ticker code BIO) to commercialize Immtech's oral drug, pafuramidine maleate (pafuramidine), in Europe for the treatment of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in AIDS patients and for the treatment of Human African trypanosomiasis, also known as African sleeping sickness ... Immtech has advanced clinical programs... (PR Newswire)
New Drug Combination Shows Promise For African Sleeping Sickness Nov 20, 2007
The parasitic disease African sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis, or HAT) threatens millions across remote and conflict-affected regions of sub-Saharan Africa, and causes about 15 000 reported cases every year. Without treatment, HAT progresses from stage 1, infection of the blood and lymph, to stage 2, invasion of the central nervous system, and then to death. (Science Daily)
Enzyme Synergy Shown To Perpetuate Sleeping Sickness Oct 23, 2007
African trypanosomiasis has long been endemic in regions of Sub-Saharan Africa ... This study addresses a key issue in the pathogenesis of African Trypanosomiasis: how the surface coat of the parasite is "shed" to facilitate immune evasion. (Science Daily)
Blood Donations in U.S. Testing Positive for Chagas' Disease Oct 21, 2007
Also called American trypanosomiasis, Chagas' disease is an infection caused by the blood-borne parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, or T.cruzi. The disease is endemic to most countries in Central and South America, as well as Mexico. (PR Newswire)
Insect scientists meet Oct 2, 2007
"Some 25-30 per cent of potential livestock production areas in Africa are not utilized because of livestock trypanosomiasis." Mr Odoom added that black flies caused hundreds of people in Nigeria, Ghana and other West African countries to go blind. He said that professional training in science technology was key to the development and advancement of agriculture and human health. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Upstream Biosciences CEO to Unveil Promising New Approach to Treating Sleeping Sickness at International Trypanosomiasis Conference Oct 2, 2007
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 2 /CNW/ -- Upstream Biosciences Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: UPBS) today announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Joel L. Bellenson, will unveil Upstream's promising new drug candidates in a keynote address to the International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control (ISCTRC) conference being held in Angola from October 1 to 5, 2007. Trypanosomiasis is the medical term for the disease known as African sleeping sickness ... The disease is... (Canada Newswire)
CONGO: Nearly half the provinces affected by sleeping sickness Sep 27, 2007
BRAZZAVILLE, 26 September 2007 (IRIN) - Because of the civil wars that have ravaged the Republic of Congo over the past few years, monitoring of trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, was considered a low priority ... phane Ngampo, head of the national programme to combat trypanosomiasis in the Ministry of Health, Social Affairs and the Family ... "In colonial times the strategies employed to overcome trypanosomiasis were successful. The number of people suffering from the disease could be... (AlertNet)
Exotic Diseases Jul 4, 2007
Otherwise known as trypanosomiasis, this is passed on to humans from the bite of the , and the usual symptoms are a high fever, excessive sleeping and confusion. If not treated the disease always causes death and it's most common in Central, Western and Eastern Africa. (Suite101.com)
The Insect Vector Always Bites Twice Jun 11, 2007
This approach, based on the studies of malaria transmission by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles and human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) by Glossinia species or tsetse flies, revealed that the antibody response can represent a good indicator of the degree of exposure of humans to bites, which could in the long term allow improved assessment of the risk of transmission of these diseases in a given region ... The objective of the work conducted on human African trypanosomiasis was to... (Science Daily)
Fear more dangerous than sharks Mar 26, 2007
Ever heard of trypanosomiasis, or leishmaniasis. Chances are you havent, even though humans are more likely to die from these relatively unknown diseases than from a shark attack. (Saanich News)
Immtech Reports Fiscal Third Quarter 2007 Results Feb 10, 2007
Immtech has advanced clinical programs that include new oral treatments for Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), malaria, and trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness), and a well defined, expanding library of compounds targeting fungal infections, Hepatitis C and other serious diseases. Immtech holds the exclusive worldwide licenses to certain patents, patent applications and technology for products derived from a proprietary pharmaceutical platform. (PR Newswire)
New Form Of Sleeping Sickness Discovered In India Stems From Deficiency In Natural Immunity Protein Jan 23, 2007
The first case of human trypanosomiasis has now been discovered in India ... A farmer in India, from the village of Shivani (district of Chandrapur) 140 km from Nagpur in the central State of Maharashtra, has recently been identified as the first confirmed case of human trypanosomiasis recorded in that country ... In December 2004, a researcher form the IRD centre in Montpellier, a specialist in the African form of human trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), undertook the identification of the... (Science Daily)
'Something to accomplish' Jan 19, 2007
Other health risks include malaria and African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), Dukes said. "The open-air market place (is) jammed with hundreds of buyers and sellers. Any and everything is offered in the market -- food, animals and household items," she said. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
