‘Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness simplifies treatment, raising hopes for eradication European regulators greenlight new one-dose compound that could help African countries get rid of an ancient burden

A drug that dramatically simplifies treatment of human African #trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) is approved by European Medicines Agency. www.science.org/content/arti...

This is a great news! #Acoziborole will be the first single dose oral treatment for #sleepingsickness. #NTDs #trypanosomiasis

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Kissing Bugs Could Kiss Off Your Life and they are spreading through the USA. They carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease. If not prevented or treated immediately, it is incurable. #kissingbugs #chagas #parasite #trypanosomiasis #triatomine

#Chagas or American #trypanosomiasis parasitic protozoan #Animal Trypanosoma cruzi transmitted by hematophagous “kissing bugs” Reduviidae aka
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This is bad news - #Chagas is a horrible disease with difficult treatment, most affecting the poorest communities - meanwhile the wheels are falling off all research investment, public health, surveillance and prevention interventions 🧪
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Learn more about our exciting new project lead by FAO and @giulianocecchi.bsky.social with @cirad.bsky.social and @ird-fr.bsky.social on #trypanosomiasis (AAT) control at the continental scale with exciting #modeling to come!!

WHO Declares Kenya Free of This Deadly Tropical Parasite After Decades of Suffering Sleeping sickness is often fatal of untreated and in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s, 40,000 cases were being diagnosed in a year

WHO Declares Kenya Free of This Deadly Tropical Parasite #Trypanosomiasis After Decades of Suffering WHO Declares Kenya Free of This Deadly Tropical Parasite After Decades of Suffering www.goodnewsnetwork.org/who-declares...

Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem, making it the tenth country to reach t...

🪰 Congratulations to #Kenya 🇰🇪 as it achieves elimination of human African #trypanosomiasis or #SleepingSickness as a public health problem! 🎉 @afro.who.int @who.int #BeatNTDs
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Vector of the Month: #Rhodnius #prolixus, #KissingBug, one of the main vectors of #Trypanosoma #cruzi, the causative agent of #American #trypanosomiasis (#Chagas' disease), authored by Radouane Ouali & Sabrina Bousbata @ulbruxelles.bsky.social

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East African #trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness). The illness is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly and caused by T. brucei rhodesiense or, in West Africa, by T. brucei gambiense. Those in East Africa have a more severe initial disease.

Project Officer (Control of African Trypanosomosis) Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

📢 New #Vacancy Alert
🌍 @fao.org is #hiring a Project Officer (Control of African #Trypanosomiasis 🪰) to support efforts in combating this critical disease affecting livestock and livelihoods across #Africa.
Closure Date: 17 June 2025
Primary Location: #Italy /Rome

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Ella presenting on trypanosome cell biology

Thanks to Rochdale Sixth Form College, Settle College and Cardinal Newman College for taking part in our #Biosciences Masterclass. Research students Hannah Pyle and Ella Southern delivered a taster lecture on #trypanosomiasis (a #NeglectedTropicalDisease caused by #trypanosome parasites) (1/2)

First post of my new account... a good news! #NTDs #SleepingSickness #trypanosomiasis #trypanosoma

TrendsTalk in our Feb issue: The 125th anniversary symposium of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine: the future of global health, by a group of #LSTM postgraduate students led by Elli Wright. #Malaria #Trypanosomiasis #Onchocerciasis #Filariasis @lstmnews.bsky.social

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Guinea eliminates human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem.

📢 @who.int: #Guinea eliminates human African #trypanosomiasis (HAT) 🪰 as a public health problem. 🎉
#WorldNTDDay #BeatNTDs
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Meningoencephalitis and chagoma, caused by #Trypanosoma #cruzi #IDsky #Chagas or American #trypanosomiasis parasitic protozoan
transmitted by hematophagous “kissing bugs” Reduviidae aka
vinchuca (Argentina 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇵🇾
barbeiro (Brazil),
chipo (Venezuela), and
chinche (Central America)

Watch this short AFP video on #Researchers at the Pierre Richet Institute in Bouaké, Ivory Coast, working to eliminate African #trypanosomiasis. @pierre_richet @afpfr @InterTryp #Science #HAT

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Job in @Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (Emeryville,USA): Scientist-Infectious Diseases #Parasitology (novel anti-parasitic drugs against #malaria #trypanosomiasis and #cryptosporidiosis). Expertise in kinetoplastids or Plasmodium is an advantage.

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Purification of Extracellular Trypanosomes, Including African, from Blood by Anion-Exchangers (Diethylaminoethyl-cellulose Columns) 10.0K Views. Univ. Bordeaux UMR INTERTRYP 177 IRD CIRAD. African trypanosomes are responsible for human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness and animal African trypanosomiasis. The trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness are tsetse fly transmitted protist parasites present in many geographical foci in sub Saharan Africa. The detection of the parasite is essential for the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.A serology can give false positive and unfortunately, false negative results. To aid detection in the blood, trypanosomes have...

New collaborative work of 3 ParaFrap teams: P. Vincendeau, @BringaudF and D.R. Robinson. They present the most fitting diagnostic method for African #trypanosomiasis. @JoVEJournal. @ird_fr @Cirad @CNRS @univbordeaux @CHUBordeaux #HAT #science #research

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New therapeutic approach to combat #AfricanSleepingSickness www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/7661_ENG_... #research #parasitology #chemistry #biology #biochemistry #SleepingSickness #trypanosomiasis #trypanosomes #tsetse #tsetsefly @angew_chem (Ill./©: Ute Hellmich,...