African countries are strengthening efforts to eradicate tsetse flies through improved data and upgraded capacity. By updating national tsetse atlases and upgrading insect laboratories, African ...

he Fear of radiation has come to the tsetse fly, but in this case it’s warranted. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), partnering with the Senegalese government and the United Nations FAO, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mining the genome of the disease-transmitting tsetse fly, researchers have revealed the genetic adaptions that allow it to have such unique biology and transmit disease to both humans and animals. The ...

Twenty years ago this autumn, an island off the coast of Tanzania became the first in Africa to get rid of the tsetse fly thanks to a nuclear technique. Prior to eradication, losses to livestock due ...

Tsetse fly. The tsetse fly is the biological vector of sleeping sickness, which can be deadly. New research shows how tsetse attractants for traps may be produced from yeast. Despite their innocuous ...

Sleeping sickness wastes away people and livestock in Ethiopia. Drones are being used to fight the fly that spreads it. Drones Against Tsetse wants to bring down the wrath of a weaponized drone on the ...

Always hungry for blood, the tsetse fly packs a painful bite. Worse yet, its attack can leave a hapless victim infected with a parasitic disease that kills thousands of people — and millions of ...

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 ...