Uni bid to beat deadly bug City scientists find life-saving test for disease

From: Evening Times | Date: July 7, 2005 | Copyright information

A TEAM of Scots scientists has developed a test which could save thousands of Africans from a deadly disease.

The Glasgow University experts have found a way to improve the treatment for sleeping sickness, which currently affects around half a million people in Africa.

The infection, which is spread by a parasite carried by tsetse flies, can cause an agonising death after it enters a patient's bloodstream.

There are only two drugs used to treat the condition, but one is too expensive to be used regularly in Africa.

The other, melarsoprol, contains arsenic and kills one in 20 patients, but ...

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