New experimental drug could treat sleeping sickness more safely, inexpensively
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Current drugs used for the disease require sophisticated diagnosis and drug infusions that are not typically available in the African regions most affected by trypanosomiasis, and the drugs themselves are frequently lethal.Current drugs used for trypanosomiasis require sophisticated diagnosis and drug infusions not typically available in the African regions most affected, and the drugs themselves are frequently lethal.