A banner overhead celebrates the “foreign” cattle, which arrived in April. Unlike the native animals, they lack natural resistance to the tsetse fly’s infectious nip.

University of Sydney. "Tsetse fly protein provides anticoagulant with its own on-off switch." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 May 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 04 / 240430105534.htm>.

“Since 1994, when I began rearing cows and goats, I have consistently lost animals to tsetse fly bites. I could not increase my goats to more than 15 as they kept dying, cancelling out birth of ...

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 tsetse fly carries the disease by biting an infected host and carrying the parasite with it until it infects whatever human or animal it bites next. 1.

Thiba farm, with over one hundred dairy cows and goats, has been set up in an area initially infested by tsetse flies. On Faza islands, the residents have for the first time since independence ...

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>.

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 ...

Quarry: the tsetse fly. The tsetse, carrier of dreaded, parasitic African sleeping sickness, which kills men and cattle alike, has for generations been Africa’s great curse.