Fighting sleep: UGA discovery may lead to new treatments for deadly sleeping sickness

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Few drugs have been developed to treat African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, and those in use are highly toxic, sometimes causing painful side effects and or death. Researchers at the University of Georgia have made a discovery that may soon lead to new safer therapies for this disease.

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