1. Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, debilitates before it kills.

2. The main approaches to controlling African trypanosomiasis are to reduce the reservoirs of infection and the presence of the tsetse fly.

3. Nifurtimox is registered for the treatment of American trypanosomiasis but not for human African trypanosomiasis.

4. Human African trypanosomiasis, more commonly called sleeping sickness, is induced by a parasite, the trypanosome , transmitted to humans by the bite of an insect, the glossinid tsetse fly.

5. Dengue, filariasis, leishmaniasis , onchocerciasis, and American trypanosomiasis ( Chagas disease ) are other diseases carried by insects.

6. Bovine trypanosomiasis spreads widely in Ethiopia , producing a serious menance to cattle.

7. Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by the protozoan parasite,( ) Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi).

8. By tinkering with the chemical structure they could develop drugs to treat human trypanosomiasis.

9. Other parasite species and sub-species of the Trypanosoma genus are pathogenic to animals and cause animal trypanosomiasis in wild and domestic animal species.

10. The protozoan blood parasite that causes sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis, infects humans, cattle, and other animals.

11. Nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy for second-stage African Trypanosoma brucei gambiense trypanosomiasis: a multicentre, randomised, phase III, non-inferiority trial.

12. The blood sucking fly spreads a parasite which causes trypanosomiasis and attacks the central nervous system.