Acute sleeping sickness – the treatment is almost as horrific as the disease. But now there is encouraging news about an oral medication – one that's also been used for chronic sleeping ...

While the events of the story are fantastically fictional, the sleeping sickness which resulted from Dream’s long imprisonment bears a striking resemblance to real-life events. In the comic ...

In 2004, when physician Dr. Wilfried Mutombo began treating patients diagnosed with sleeping sickness, the available treatments were themselves horrific and sometimes deadly. "The widely available ...

The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. Each day, the player chooses where Grayson investigates.

Chad has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, a fly-borne tropical disease also known as sleeping sickness, the World Health Organization recently announced. The elimination marks a milestone ...

A “potentially transformative” drug to treat sleeping sickness could set the world on course to eradicate the fatal disease by 2030, according to a landmark study. Researchers have found that ...

Without treatment sleeping sickness can cause confusion, uncontrollable aggression, psychosis, and ultimately death Credit: Getty Early symptoms include fever, weakness, and itching.

Health experts are warning of a potentially fatal but little-known disease called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) - also ...

From England was reported a sharp increase in the number of cases of the new sleeping sickness (Encephalitis lethargica). Every week of 1924 has revealed, for that matter, a relentless increase ...

Sleeping sickness is an often fatal disease caused by a parasite where infected people become prone to sleeping all day and night as the disease progresses.