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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-26-10 08:16 PM
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Grant to tackle sleeping sickness
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8468632.stm



A charity run by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has awarded £3m to Glasgow University to further the treatment of sleeping sickness.

The money will help develop new models to test the ability of drugs to treat the potentially-fatal disease.

Sleeping sickness, also known as Human African Trypanosomasis, is caused by a parasite carried by the tsetse fly.

Once in the blood stream it attacks the blood and nervous system and if left untreated usually results in death.
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