New treatments for sleeping sickness
This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
World Health Organization and used a new set of drugs for the treatment of African trypanosomiasis diseases in humans, also known as sleeping sickness. Will be given drugs nifurtimox and eflornithine to Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Officials from the Drug for Neglected Diseases Initiative say that the new treatment has fewer side effects. It is also more efficient and less expensive than traditional medicines. In addition, the new treatment reduces the number of injections needed. And reduces the amount of time patients must spend in the hospital.
Sleeping sickness threatens millions of people in thirty-six African countries. Most live in poor rural areas. The disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma.
It is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected tsetse flies.
Signs of sleeping sickness, fever, headache, extreme fatigue and pain in muscles and joints. And can detect early disease is difficult because many of those infected show no symptoms immediately.
Over time, the parasites invade the central nervous system. This disease causes sleep disturbance, confusion, personality changes, slurred speech, convulsions and coma. If left untreated, sleeping sickness kills.
World Health Organization estimates that the number of people infected with the disease at the present time nearly sixty thousand people because of this disease. And evolve in two different forms. Trypanosoma gambiense is responsible for ninety percent of the reported cases of sleeping sickness. People infected with this disease develop a format for many years without major symptoms. Progression of the disease more quickly within a few weeks or months in people with Trypanosoma rhodesiense.
So far, the drug melarsoprol is used to treat patients in an advanced stage of sleeping sickness. But needs to inject the drug several painful many times a day for several weeks.
It also causes harmful side effects, some of which can be fatal.
In Uganda, a new study confirms link between research earlier in the spread of sleeping sickness with infected cattle. To be processed from the book study called for stronger rules that require the cattle before they are sold in the market.
The study was published in the Public Library of Science.
Special contaminated KUNA English Development Report.
(Adapted from 04Jan2010 Radio program)
World Health Organization and used a new set of drugs for the treatment of African trypanosomiasis diseases in humans, also known as sleeping sickness. Will be given drugs nifurtimox and eflornithine to Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Officials from the Drug for Neglected Diseases Initiative say that the new treatment has fewer side effects. It is also more efficient and less expensive than traditional medicines. In addition, the new treatment reduces the number of injections needed. And reduces the amount of time patients must spend in the hospital.
Sleeping sickness threatens millions of people in thirty-six African countries. Most live in poor rural areas. The disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma.
It is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected tsetse flies.
Signs of sleeping sickness, fever, headache, extreme fatigue and pain in muscles and joints. And can detect early disease is difficult because many of those infected show no symptoms immediately.
Over time, the parasites invade the central nervous system. This disease causes sleep disturbance, confusion, personality changes, slurred speech, convulsions and coma. If left untreated, sleeping sickness kills.
World Health Organization estimates that the number of people infected with the disease at the present time nearly sixty thousand people because of this disease. And evolve in two different forms. Trypanosoma gambiense is responsible for ninety percent of the reported cases of sleeping sickness. People infected with this disease develop a format for many years without major symptoms. Progression of the disease more quickly within a few weeks or months in people with Trypanosoma rhodesiense.
So far, the drug melarsoprol is used to treat patients in an advanced stage of sleeping sickness. But needs to inject the drug several painful many times a day for several weeks.
It also causes harmful side effects, some of which can be fatal.
In Uganda, a new study confirms link between research earlier in the spread of sleeping sickness with infected cattle. To be processed from the book study called for stronger rules that require the cattle before they are sold in the market.
The study was published in the Public Library of Science.
Special contaminated KUNA English Development Report.
(Adapted from 04Jan2010 Radio program)
New treatments for sleeping sickness
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