Few animals are more problematic than the tiny African insect known to English speakers as the tsetse fly. This is the carrier of "sleeping sickness," an often deadly neurological illness in humans, ...

New Haven, Conn. – An international team of researchers led by the Yale School of Public Health has successfully sequenced the genetic code of the tsetse fly, opening the door to scientific ...

Yale scientists have for the first time identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan ...

The five-day conference was held under the theme “Harnessing One Health Technologies and Innovations Towards Eliminating Trypanosomiasis in Africa”. It provided a platform for policymakers, ...

Tsetse flies carry the microorganism that causes sleeping sickness in humans and livestock, but a recent study reveals that their numbers have dropped at a site in the Zambezi Valley as temperatures ...

Using satellite imagery and population genetics, landscape resistance to gene flow was mapped to identify natural barriers that isolate tsetse populations. Eight populations of G. p. gambiensis were ...

A nuclear technique has successfully reduced the tsetse fly population in Senegal without harming other insects, an eight-year study has found. The study was supported by the International Atomic ...

THE inauguration of a campaign against the tsetse--L fly in Tropical Africa is long overdue. Tropical Africa is becoming progressively important as a source of food-supply and raw materials for the ...

Lake Victoria is a pearl shared among the East African community. It is the second largest fresh water lake on the continent; dotted with beautiful islands and providing fresh waters for the delicious ...

The masters of the Anthropocene, that would be us, have been responsible for decimation and end of many species through our effect on the ecosystem - through hunting, migration, or from the sources of ...