Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a ...

It often starts with swollen lymph nodes and weight loss before robbing the sufferer of sleep, energy and mobility. Transmitted by tsetse flies, sleeping sickness is one of Africa’s most feared ...

A new infrared system is helping the International Atomic Energy Agency to speed up the sorting of male from female tsetse flies as the agency controls the breeding of the insect using irradiation.

Methods are lacking for controlling the spread of disease among humans and livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. Now, a new insight into how tsetse flies mate could bolster the arsenal of tools to manage ...

Dr Christopher Wanga, Director of Livestock Policy Research and Regulations, State Department for Livestock Ministry of Agriculture responds to questions from journalist on September 18, 2023.

Fighting the tsetse fly using irradiation involves rearing and then releasing in the environment sterile male flies to mate with wild females producing no offspring, reducing the population over time.

The government agency tasked with eradication of tsetse flies and sleeping sickness, trypanosomiasis, has asked for Sh1.2 billion budget, saying 11 million Kenyans at risk in 38 counties. Kenya Tsetse ...

Mammalian moms aren’t the only ones to deliver babies and feed them milk. Tsetse flies, the insects best known for transmitting sleeping sickness, do it too. A researcher at the University of ...

Geoff Attardo receives funding from National Institutes of Health (#1R21AI128523-01A1 - Unraveling Intersexual Interactions in Tsetse) and the Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne ...

Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a blood meal. That’s the protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness ...