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Sleeping sickness under high surveillance in Africa

Despite the efforts to fight Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, it continues to plague several parts of Africa.

An enhanced rainfall forecasting can assist vulnerable farmers in West Africa achieve bumper harvest, a new study by scientists at the Institut de Recherche pour le Development (IRD), Senegal has said.

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More than one and a half million people per year are poisoned by snake venom in sub-Saharan Africa and only 10 per cent of them are treated, a new study has found.

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