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 ...

The real danger of the tsetse fly's feeding habits comes from its ability to transmit the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness. During a tsetse bite, the fly can pass Trypanosoma cruzi ...

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 ...

Chagas disease is responsible for thousands of deaths annually. The tsetse fly is a dangerous insect that spreads 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 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.

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 ...