PRESENT MEANS OF COMBATING SLEEPING SICKNESS.

Sleeping Sickness Wakes Again

Sleeping sickness of horses was, as reeentiy as the IQSO's, the most devastating livestock disease in the United States. Horses died by the hundreds of thousands in the Midwestern United States, in California, and along the Atlantic seaboard at a period which coincided with the beginning of the sharp decline in the use of horses on the farm. Losses were so severe in some areas that the inevitab...

The Sleeping Sickness of Uganda

34 cases by the same method and found the Trypanosoma in 20 cases, or 70 per cent. An examination of 12 cases of other diseases including three of Trypanosoma fever in the same way gave negative results. The matter was then taken up by" Lieutenant-Colonel David Bruce, F.n.c.s., R A M C and Dr. David N. Nabarro, who had been deputed by the Royal Society to investigate sleeping sickness, and arri...

Sleeping sickness – human African trypanosomiasis

Sleeping Sickness in Principe Island

years' war against sleeping sickness in the Island of Principe, a Portuguese Island oft' the West Coast of Africa. The report has been written by Drs. da Costa, Saut Anna, dos Santos, and de A. Alvares, and has been admirably translated into English by Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Wyllie, f.k.g.s.. of the Indian Army (retd.). The population of the Island of Principe is between 4,000 and 5,000, and ...

Combating Hepatitis C (HCV): A Review of Present & Future Perspectives

Abstract: Over the past few decades, the race against the treatment strategies of infectious HCV has gained a lot of momentum. These treatments include several therapies like Ribavirin, INF-α, DAA based pro-drugs, vaccines, and even naturally occurring compounds like herbal extracts as well as scorpion venom. All of these drugs have their specialized techniques and methodologies of administrati...