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 ...

LMU researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that enables trypanosomes to reach the salivary glands of the flies. Tsetse flies are common across much of Africa. They feed on 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. Our immune ...

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. The parasite comes ...

There are continental efforts through Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC) to eradicate tsetse flies and subsequently trypanosomiasis from the sub-Saharan Africa ...

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 ...

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 ...