About 40 million Nigerian rural dwellers are affected with sleeping sickness otherwise known as trypanosomiasis, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has said Onu disclosed this during the commissioning of the North-East zonal office of the Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research (NITR), in Gombe at the weekend. According to a statement signed…

Dr Augustine Igweh, the Director-General, Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research (NITR) Kaduna, says Trypanosomiasis is no longer a public health problem in Nigeria due to surveillance activities and advanced technology. Trypanosomiasis is a sleeping sickness in humans and animals. It is transmitted by an insect called tsetse fly. Igweh said this in an interview with…