📖+10 XP
🎧+10 XP
✅+15 XP
Level A1 – BeginnerCEFR A1
2 min
76 words
- Sleeping sickness is a serious tropical disease that harms people.
- The disease makes people feel very weak and very tired.
- Long ago many people were sick and often untreated.
- Now there are far fewer confirmed cases in many areas.
- A new oral medicine has been approved by regulators.
- The medicine is given as tablets and taken once.
- It helps both the early and the late disease stages.
- Health workers can test and treat during one visit.
Difficult words
- tropical — from hot regions near the equator
- serious — very bad and needing help or care
- untreated — not given medical care or treatment
- confirmed — checked and shown to be true
- approved — officially allowed by people in charge
- oral — taken by mouth as medicine or food
- stage — one step or time in a process or illnessstages
Tip: hover, focus or tap highlighted words in the article to see quick definitions while you read or listen.
Discussion questions
- Have you ever visited a health worker?
- Would you prefer a medicine as one tablet or many tablets?
- Is it good to test and treat in one visit?
Related articles
15 Dec 2025
14 Dec 2025
Targeting inflammation as a way to treat depression
A federally funded review and meta-analysis found that anti-inflammatory treatments reduced depressive symptoms and eased anhedonia in people with depression who had high inflammation. The drugs were not FDA-approved for depression and would be used off-label.
29 Dec 2025
Clock disruption speeds breast cancer in models
New research finds that repeating disruption of the body’s 24-hour clock changes breast tissue, weakens immune defenses and leads to faster, more aggressive breast cancer in experimental models. The study links altered light–dark schedules to worse outcomes.
22 Feb 2024
28 Mar 2026