This disease affects the central nervous system and can be fatal if untreated. Tsetse flies bite humans and animals, ...

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 ...

Also referred to as "sleeping sickness" due to the effect it has on your sleeping pattern, it is transmitted to humans via ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne ...

Chances are you’ve got one of these bloodsuckers lurking nearby. Mosquitoes, ticks, lice, kissing bugs and tsetse flies are all looking to grab a bite … of you. See exactly how they do it and what you ...

Tsetse fly. It transmits parasites that cause ... said Titus Mitau senior warden of Ruma National-park. He said the flies bite and infect all animals but, mostly, they bite buffaloes.

The parasite enters its mammalian hosts via the bloodstream during a tsetse fly bite, and usually exits the same way. Why T. brucei spreads from the blood into extravascular spaces has been an ...

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 ...