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| | MSF Access Website The Campaign Target Diseases Sleeping Sickness |
 | | Sleeping sickness is easier to recognise in the second stage, but the treatment is more difficult. | | | Except for eflornithine, whose effectiveness against sleeping sickness was discovered by chance, there has been no significant improvement in treatment for 50 years. | | | In spite of the millions of people at risk, research into the human form of sleeping sickness is negligible. |
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| | Sleeping sickness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The organo-arsenical melarsoprol (Arsobal) was developed in the 1940s, and is effective for patients with second stage sleeping sickness. | | | After that success, screening and effective surveillance were relaxed, and the disease has reappeared in endemic form in several foci over the last thirty years [1]. | | | Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres Sleeping sickness information page |
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| | WHO African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness |
| | Sleeping sickness affects remote and rural areas where health systems are least effective, or non-existent. | | | Faced with this resurgence of sleeping sickness, WHO coordinates activities in endemic countries and mobilizes a wide range of partners for this purpose. | | | After that success, screening and effective surveillance were relaxed, and the disease has reappeared in endemic form in several foci over the last thirty years. |
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| | Sleeping Sickness AHealthyMe.com |
| | However, this last method is effective only for the Rhodesian variety of sleeping sickness. | | | There are currently no immunizations available to prevent the acquisition of sleeping sickness. | | | Trypanosomes, however, are able to express new markers at such a high rate of change that the host's immune system is constantly trying to catch up. |
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| | The Nordic Clinic-Disease-Sleeping Sickness |
| | The only way to prevent sleeping sickness is to prevent being bitten by tsetse flies. | | | In the early stages, a painful swelling of the skin (scab or chancre) may be found at the tsetse fly bite site. | | | This may resemble ringworm, but in contrast with ringworm, there is usually swelling. |
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| | African Sleeping Sickness - Boston College |
| | Currently, there is neither a vaccine nor a drug available to preventinfection with sleeping sickness. | | | Eflornithine, one of a few anti-trypanosomal drugs developed over the past few decades, has been effective in treating late-stage West African sleeping sickness. | | | In children, physical and neurological problems can occur even after the trypanosome is eliminated from the body. |
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http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/biology/research/insect/tsetse
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| | Sleeping Sickness |
| | There is a particular sadness to the sleeping sickness which had overtaken this church in Sardis. | | | There is a tremendous sadness about sleeping sickness. | | | A dangerous series of circumstances had befallen the church at Sardis and had resulted in this disease of sleeping sickness. |
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| | Sleeping Sickness Information Sleeping Sickness Results |
| | The primary endpoint of the study is a sleep maintenance measure, Wake After Sleep Onset WASO measured by polysomnography PSG in a sleep laboratory setting. | | | Nearly eliminated in the 1960s, hat has been treating patients with sleeping sickness. | | | Click here if you are looking for sleeping sickness sleeping sickness. |
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| | MSF-USA: Sleeping Sickness Information Page |
| | MSF has been treating patients with sleeping sickness for nearly 20 years. | | | This stage may be characterized by confusion, violent behavior or convulsions. | | | Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Sleeping Sickness |
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| | Reuters AlertNet - Sleeping sickness spreading in Angola, MSF says |
| | “Sleeping sickness is spreading,” said Richard Mathela, an MSF doctor who runs a screening and treatment centre in Caxito, Bengo province. | | | Even then, the early signs include fever, headaches and muscle pain – complaints associated with a host of diseases including malaria and influenza. | | | “I don’t think sleeping sickness is a priority,” Mathela said. |
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| | Sleeping Sickness |
| | I can smell the change from waking to sleep, something earthier and mustier surrounding Sandburg like a halo, maybe an aura as Naomi might say. | | | But for now, one of the million stories sleeps beside me, and I'm kind of interested in the plot. | | | He reaches down and adjusts the sheet and light blanket closer around my shoulders, using the delicate touch of a parent with a sleeping child. |
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| | Trypanosomiasis |
| | It had taken half a century to bring down the incidence of sleeping sickness. | | | The most effective approach for controlling sleeping sickness has three parts: | | | The parasite that causes sleeping sickness is called the trypanosome. |
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| | IFPMA Health Initiatives: Sleeping Sickness |
| | Furthermore, Bayer is supporting studies of the use of Lampit, a drug originally used against Chagas' disease, to treat sleeping sickness. | | | In 2002 Bayer agreed to supply - at no cost and for an initial five-year period - as much of the sleeping sickness drug Germanin as the WHO determines is needed to eliminate the disease. | | | Click on an area of the map to learn about regional health initiatives. |
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| | Wired News: Sleeping Sickness Drug Revived |
| | Aventis (then called Hoechst Marion Roussel) had halted production of the sleeping sickness drug eflornithine in 1995 because it was not making a profit. | | | "This agreement is excellent news for patients, and a major step in the struggle to control sleeping sickness," said Dr. Bernard Pécoul, director of the MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, in a statement. | | | The World Health Organization and Aventis pharmaceuticals have launched an initiative to combat African sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK Scotland £1.5m for sleeping sickness cure |
| | Professor Ferguson said: "The current drugs to treat human African sleeping sickness are based on arsenic and are extremely poor. | | | University-based research is critical to the search for new medicines to combat these appalling diseases | | | The cause of human African sleeping sickness is the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which is transmitted by the bite of a tsetse fly. |
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| | Sleeping Sickness |
| | Sleeping sickness affects human beings and is caused by tsetse flies. | | | A presentation from the Ministry of Health shows that saving a sleeping sickness patient costs at least $209 (about Shs 400,000). | | | Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Worries Ministry of Health, The Monitor, May 10, 2003 |
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| | BBC News HEALTH Sleeping sickness breakthrough |
| | Researchers have discovered a more practical, cost-saving treatment for the potentially fatal disease of sleeping sickness. | | | The first-choice drug for the treatment of this disease is melarsoprol, which was introduced in 1949. | | | The parasite that causes sleeping sickness, or African Trypanosomiasis, is spread to humans when they are bitten by the tsetse fly. |
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| | Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Spreading in Uganda |
| | Current methods to curb the epidemic of sleeping sickness in eastern Uganda are failing, concludes a Research Letterin this week’s issue of The Lancet. | | | Previous story : Harmless virus may hold key to more effective HIV drug discovery | | | August 26, 2005 09:28 PM Sleeping sickness is caused by the Trypanosomaparasite, which is carried by the tsetse fly. |
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| | Sleeping sickness |
| | Relatively drastic remedies are used to treat sleeping sickness. | | | Where does sleeping sickness occur and how many people are affected? | | | Sleeping sickness is also known as trypanosomiasis or African sleeping sickness. |
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| | Sleeping Sickness |
| | Home > Conditions > S > Sleeping Sickness | | | Consult a physician regarding the applicability of any information found on GoldBamboo.com to your symptoms or medical condition. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Test hope for sleeping sickness |
| | Sleeping sickness affects up to 500,000 each year. | | | The test has been developed to detect the Trypanosoma brucei gambiensi variant of sleeping sickness, which is found in west Africa and causes a delayed chronic illness that can last years. | | | Symptoms start with fever, headache, joint pain and once the parasites crosses the blood brain barrier, characteristic neurological symptoms and signs present; altered mental state, irritability, sensory disturbances, and co-ordination problems. |
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| | War, famine and now pestilence - Sleeping sickness ravages Central Africa |
| | With sickness and death affecting all age groups, further impoverishment will affect villages, as workers are unable to take care of crops. | | | Cases of African sleeping sickness were practically eliminated during the years 1960 to 1965, and it was thought the disease was on the verge of total eradication. | | | African countries where barely 1 percent of the at-risk population is under surveillance are reporting cases of sleeping sickness to the World Health Organization. |
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| | CNN - VXtreme: Sleeping Sickness - Feb. 28, 1998 |
| | CNN - VXtreme: Sleeping Sickness - Feb. 28, 1998 | | | CNN's Jason Evans says warfare isn't the only force taking a toll on lives in Sudan |
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| | Sleeping sickness spreading |
| | After nearly six months working in Iraq, Bockari Kargbo says he is relieved to be home in Sierra Leone. | | | Sleeping sickness, a potentially fatal disease if not tackled in its early stages, is caused by the Trypanosoma parasite, transmitted from cattle to humans by the blood-sucking tsetse fly. | | | His team reckons that 428 cases of sleeping sickness were diagnosed in Soroti over the five-year period, but as many as 300 more may have gone unspotted. |
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| | News: Trial for African sleeping sickness - myDNA |
| | In Phase II clinical trials, a new oral drug, DB289, demonstrated safety and high effectiveness in subjects with the early stage of sleeping sickness. | | | Scientists are launching a Phase III trial this summer involving for the first time hundreds of patients who will be treated with the drug. | | | Despite being one of Africa's most prevalent and economically devastating illnesses, sleeping sickness is definitely one of those that has been neglected. |
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| | East African Trypanosomiasis |
| | A bite by the tsetse fly is often painful and can develop into a red sore, also called a chancre (SHAN-ker). | | | Fever, severe headaches, irritability, extreme fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, and aching muscles and joints are common symptoms of sleeping sickness. | | | There are two types of African trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, named for the areas in Africa in which they are found. |
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| | GIANTmicrobes Sleeping Sickness |
| | Do you think you might have sleeping sickness? | | | This little fellow will sing you a lullaby you'll never forget. |
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| | Campaign against sleeping sickness shows progress |
| | [For more information on the prevention and treatment of sleeping sickness] | | | Nangouma said 1 percent of people suffering from sleeping sickness who came to hospital died, while others recovered, but suffered permanent secondary effects such as paralysis or loss of speech. | | | A number of strategies have been put in place, including the training more medical personnel on sleeping sickness, and the establishment of subregional (Sudan, Chad, DRC, Congo, Cameroon, CAR) coordination to prevent the disease from moving from one country to another. |
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| | SciDev.Net |
| | Our full range of news, views and information from around the globe | | | The WHO says sleeping sickness affects 300,000 to 500,000 people in a 'tsetse' belt stretching from Senegal in the west to Uganda in the east. | | | The sleeping sickness epidemic is worsening in parts of Africa. |
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| | Doctor, Doctor: Sleeping Sickness - TV.com |
| | Tell the world what you think of Sleeping Sickness. | | | Richard gets hooked on sleeping pills and the partners realize they've all been used to feed his habit. | | | So Mike needs to the partners need to keep an eye on him until he falls asleep which puts a damper on their trip to New York. |
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| | Sleeping sickness Encyclopedia Search - Drug Price Search |
| | Sleep becomes uncontrollable as the disease progresses until the patient becomes comatose. | | | Ultimately the parasites invade the brain, first causing behavioral changes such as fear and mood swings, followed by headache, fever, and weakness. | | | The more severe form of the illness is caused by rhodesiense. |
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| | Introduction: African Sleeping sickness - WrongDiagnosis.com |
| | Researching symptoms of African Sleeping sickness: Further information about the symptoms of African Sleeping sickness is available including a list of symptoms of African Sleeping sickness, or alternatively return to research other symptoms in the symptom center. | | | Causes of African Sleeping sickness: Research more detailed information about the causes of African Sleeping sickness, or other general information about African Sleeping sickness. | | | Statistics and African Sleeping sickness: Various sources and calculations are available in statistics about African Sleeping sickness, prevalence and incidence statistics for African Sleeping sickness, and you can also research other medical statistics in our statistics center. |
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| | SBRI - Diseases: African Sleeping Sickness |
| | African sleeping sickness is a parasitic infection caused by a species of parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, which is transmitted to humans through the bite of the tsetse fly. | | | With early diagnosis, the chance of recovery from African sleeping sickness is good. | | | Initially, parasites multiply in the blood, causing a litany of non-specific symptoms, such as fever, severe headache, extreme fatigue, swollen lymph nodes and aching muscles and joints. |
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| | Symptoms of African Sleeping sickness - WrongDiagnosis.com |
| | Furthermore, signs and symptoms of African Sleeping sickness may vary on an individual basis for each patient. | | | This signs and symptom information for African Sleeping sickness has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of African Sleeping sickness signs or African Sleeping sickness symptoms. | | | Note that African Sleeping sickness symptoms usually refers to various symptoms known to a patient, but the phrase African Sleeping sickness signs may refer to those signs only noticable by a doctor: |
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| | sleeping sickness - definition of sleeping sickness by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | sleeping sickness - an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | sleeping sickness - definition of sleeping sickness by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
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| | Case of Sleeping Sickness Raises Alarm in Bengal |
| | But there is no trace of the patient, who doctors fear, might die as drugs for treating sleeping sickness are not available in West Bengal or anywhere in India. | | | Case of Sleeping Sickness Raises Alarm in Bengal | | | Sleeping sickness, or Trypanosomiasis, is rampant in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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| | Artificial Cow Helps To Eradicate Sleeping Sickness |
| | One of Africa's most harmful pests is the tsetse fly, which can infect humans with fatal sleeping sickness and cattle with Nagana, the name for sleeping sickness in cattle. | | | Sleeping sickness and Nagana are transmitted to humans and cattle by tsetse infected with a parasite called Trypanosoma. | | | There have been three severe epidemics of sleeping sickness in Africa over the last century, with the last one beginning in 1970 and still in progress. |
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| | Trypanosoma Brucei Rhodesiense / T.b. Gambiense |
| | the infection ("sleeping sickness") is the result of a chronic | | | Sleeping sickness occurs in Africa between the 15° North and the 20° South. | | | The T.b.rhodesiense form is found in East and Central-East Africa whereas the |
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| | SLEEPING-SICKNESS - LoveToKnow Article on SLEEPING-SICKNESS |
| | (1907); Reports of the Sleeping-Sickness Commission; Castellani, Researches on the Aetiology of Sleeping- Sickness, Journal of Tropical Medicine (June 1903). | | | To properly cite this SLEEPING-SICKNESS article in your work, copy the complete reference below: |
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