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 ...

Mining the genome of the tsetse fly, which transmits sleeping sickness, researchers have revealed weaknesses in its unique biology that they hope will help to eradicate this deadly disease. The 10 ...

News Release 9-Mar-2015 Ancient Africans used 'no fly zones' to bring herds south Grass corridors helped migrants dodge tsetse flies Peer-Reviewed Publication Washington University in St. Louis ...

Newly identified tsetse fly pheromone may help in curbing disease spread Date: February 20, 2023 Source: Yale University Summary: Scientists have identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the ...

Tsetse flies transmit trypanosomes—unicellular parasites that cause trypanosomiasis in humans and animals. “African sleeping sickness is a dreadful disease that’s hard to treat.

University of Bristol. "Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heatwave, study finds." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 12 March 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 03 / 240312221001.htm>.

Tsetse flies stand out from their blood-feeding cousins the mosquitoes and ticks because of their unique reproductive biology. They give birth to live young and, even more unusual, the mother ...

Chad has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, a fly-borne tropical disease also known as sleeping sickness, the World Health Organization recently announced. The elimination marks a milestone ...

Tsetse flies - which transmit tiny parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana disease in animals, - are migrating from their usual habitats to cooler parts of Lambwe Valley in ...