Researchers make breakthrough in the fight against African sleeping sickness
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 04:49
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews are one step closer to breaking the tetse fly's grip on Africa's health and economy. The bloodsucking fly, which carries the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, is responsible for the spread of the deadly African sleeping sickness and the related disease Nagana in cattle.