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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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.

FILE - In this June 1, 2002 file photo dead tsetse flies on display in a laboratory run by the International Livestock Research Institute in Ghibe Valley, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In the southern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers recapitulate in the lab how an infectious parasite gains its ferociousness. The tsetse fly, with its painful, blood-feeding bite, has a fan following at Yale University, where biologist ...

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 ...