[00:00.00]British and Canadian scientists say
[00:02.11]they have identified a potential treatment for sleeping sickness
[00:05.22]which kills about 50,000 people a year in Africa.
[00:08.37]The scientists at the University of Dundee in Scotland
[00:11.84]were funded to research diseases neglected
[00:14.23]by major pharmaceutical companies
[00:15.96]One of them,
[00:16.92]Professor Mike Ferguson told the BBC
[00:18.91]the drug works by disabling a human enzyme
[00:21.65]essential to the parasite which causes sleeping sickness.

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