Exciting results on a new sleeping sickness drug: 95% effective in late stage patients, and 100% effective in those diagnosed early in a trial in the DRC & Guinea. Could this be the beginning of the end of the disease?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/new-cure-sleeping-sickness-could-eliminate-nightmare-disease/

Also more stunning 🦟 pics from Simon Townsley..

#neglecteddiseases #sleepingsickness #globalhealth #tsetseflies

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2022-09-african-sickness-pathogen-colonizes-tsetse.html
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