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 ...

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 ...

Tsetse fly. It transmits parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana disease in animals. [iStockphoto] Tsetse flies - which transmit tiny parasites that cause sleeping sickness in ...

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.

Health experts are warning of a potentially fatal but little-known disease called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) - also ...

of the pupæ of the tsetse-fly (Glossina palpalis) in nature. As this species of fly is now known to be the agent which disseminates the infection of sleeping sickness, any discoveries relating to ...

African sleeping sickness—also known as human African trypanosomiasis—is a neglected tropical disease that is usually fatal to humans if untreated. While treatment campaigns and tsetse fly ...