Parasites that cause the deadly illness known as sleeping sickness can spread beyond their native Africa as a result of mutations to key genes, a study shows. The findings reveal that climate change ...
The study has looked at Trypanosome parasites, which cause sleeping sickness. The infection is common to parts of Africa. Sleeping sickness refers to a range of different parasitic diseases. The ...
The findings reveal that climate change and measures to control populations of tsetse flies, which carry the disease, may drive molecular changes in the organisms that cause sleeping sickness – which ...