Sleeping Sickness Parasite Susceptible to Extinction Because It Hasn't Had Sex in 10,000 Years

Image: Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. Photo: Zephyris. CC BY-SA 3.0

blogs.scientificamerican.com - January 29th 2016 - John R. Platt

Like a lot of people, I make sure to get a flu shot every year. That’s because the viruses that cause influenza mutate all the time, creating new strains that require new treatments.

That’s not the case with the disease known as African sleeping sickness, which kills thousands of people a year.

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