A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

Get ready to explore one of Africa's most notorious insects: the tsetse fly. These tiny flies may not look like much, but they play a major role in spreading sleeping sickness, aka human African ...

When it comes to feeding, tsetse flies are both aggressive and persistent. A tsetse bite can happen quickly and without much warning, and the fly injects saliva containing anticoagulants to prevent ...

Inside the Ruma National-park, there are 1100 tsetse fly traps, each with a density of 0.17 per trap to control the tsetse. In the 120-kilometre square park, it is estimated that about 70 per cent ...

“The success of the Galana irrigation scheme will only be achieved with the control of tsetse flies. We want the potential of this project fully exploited,” said KENTTEC chairman Gideon Nza ...

A. G. Bagshawe announcing the discovery, I believe for the first time, of the pupæ of the tsetse-fly (Glossina palpalis) in nature. As this species of fly is now known to be the agent which ...

Get ready to explore one of Africa's most notorious insects: the tsetse fly.These tiny flies may not look like much, but they play a major role in spreading sleeping sickness, aka human African ...

This R&D complements Coordinated Research Projects (CRP) each with the participation of 15 – 20 Member States, and addresses gaps in relation to mass rearing, sterilization, quality control, behaviour ...

While treatment campaigns and tsetse fly control efforts have helped control human African trypanosomiasis, T. brucei remains a major problem for African farmers, killing an estimated 3 million ...