Bacteria used to fight sleeping sickness

Scientists believe they have found a way to beat sleeping sickness using a bacterium against the tsetse fly host that spreads the disease to humans.

The tsetse fly harbours bacteria in its midgut, muscle and salivary glands.

Experts in Belgium have genetically modified these "good bugs" so they attack the culprit parasite carried by the fly. Althought, work is needed to hone the process.

Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, is a potentially fatal disease that plagues many regions of Africa. The parasite causing sleeping sickness is transmitted to humans through the bite of the infected tsetse fly. This causes fever, headaches, aching joints and itching. Then follows the second stage of disease as the parasites cross the blood-brain barrier to infect the central nervous system.

The drug most commonly used to treat the condition is a derivative of arsenic. And the treatment can be excruciatingly painful and potentially fatal.

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In my opinion, I think they have to be peaceful of their sickness and very comprehensives because you have to go very wrong.