Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is a disease caused by a parasite and spread by the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa. Infections begin with mild to moderate symptoms like fever and ...

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 ...

African sleeping sickness—also known as human African trypanosomiasis—is a neglected tropical disease that is usually fatal ...

But most farmers are familiar with the disease in cows; this is attributable to the fact that tsetse flies have a preference for cow blood meal; in effect, cows serve as a barrier to other ...

Following seven years of work on tsetse flies in Africa, mainly in the Sudan and Zimbabwe ... on the latter causing the disease known as myiasis. Martin has been a consultant on myiasis issues for the ...