| New Sleeping Sickness Drug unveiled in Kampala |
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The new treatment reduces the number of intravenous infusions from 56 to 14 and shortens hospitalisation from 14 days to 10, said the research group. Until now, only two drug options were available, one of which was painful to inject, arsenic-based and toxic, and killed around five percent of patients. The other required one hour infusions administered every six hours for two weeks. According to DNDi, the new medicine is a simplified treatment comprising oral and injectable doses. Sleeping sickness is caused by the Trypanosoma parasite, transmitted from cattle to humans by the blood-sucking tsetse fly and is fatal without treatment. An advanced stage affects the patient's central nervous system and causes neuropsychiatric problems, convulsions and serious sleep disturbance that lead to coma and death.g |
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