10 Facts About African trypanosomiasis

African trypanosomiasis, known as African sleeping sickness or simply sleeping sickness, is an insect-borne parasitic infection of humans and other animals.

African trypanosomiasis symptoms occur in two stages: the hemolymphatic stage and the neurological stage .

African trypanosomiasis is dependent on the interaction of the parasite with the tsetse flies, as well as the host .

The risk of contracting African trypanosomiasis is dependent on coming in contact with an infected tsetse fly.

Entire life cycle of African trypanosomiasis trypanosomes is represented by extracellular stages.

Additionally, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative has contributed to the African trypanosomiasis sleeping sickness research by developing a compound called fexinidazole.

Kinetoplastid infections include African trypanosomiasis sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease, and Leishmaniasis.

Each of the three diseases, African trypanosomiasis sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease, and Leishmaniasis each received approximately a third of the funding, which was about $36.

Much of the progress that has been made in African trypanosomiasis sleeping sickness and neglected disease research as a whole is a result of the other non-public funders.

African trypanosomiasis has generally been considered an anthroponotic disease and thus its control program was mainly focused on stopping the transmission by treating human cases and eliminating the vector.