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 ...
A study by Johns Hopkins researchers reveals that the parasite T. brucei, responsible for African sleeping sickness, uses host tissues to evade immune responses. The findings show that T. brucei ...
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.
Communities living in African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT) endemic areas of Zambia use several control strategies to protect their livestock from the devastating effects of trypan ...
As the planet warms and disease-carrying animals like mosquitos follow their ideal temperatures northward and into higher altitudes, they may bring diseases such as West Nile virus to areas where they ...
Meanwhile, in Southern Africa, ASKY flies to just two countries: Angola and South Africa. ASKY is therefore evaluating potential new city pairs in East, North and Southern Africa. In North Africa ...
It is now believed to be worth considerably more. South African Airways (SAA) might walk away with a windfall of at least R1-billion from the potential sale of a valuable landing slot at Heathrow ...
THE tsetse-flies (Glossina) continue to occupy the attention of entomologists working in tropical Africa. Dr. W. A. Lamborn has now published (Bull. Entom. Research, vii., part i) a third report ...