Medical screening and fly control could rapidly reduce sleeping sickness in key locations
Friday, January 6, 2017 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
In 2012, the World Health Organization set public health goals for reducing Gambian sleeping sickness, a parasitic infection. Now, by mathematically modeling the impact of different intervention strategies, researchers report have described how two-pronged approaches, integrating medical intervention and vector control, could substantially speed up the elimination of sleeping sickness in high burden areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo.