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British and Canadian scientists say |
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they have identified a potential treatment for sleeping sickness |
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which kills about 50,000 people a year in Africa. |
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The scientists at the University of Dundee in Scotland |
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were funded to research diseases neglected |
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by major pharmaceutical companies |
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One of them, |
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Professor Mike Ferguson told the BBC |
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the drug works by disabling a human enzyme |
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essential to the parasite which causes sleeping sickness. |
