In African oral tradition, proverbs are not just witty expressions, they are repositories of ancestral wisdom. One of the ...

The Kenya Tsetse Fly and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council (KENTTEC) has suspended a recruitment process after the state ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

Sprayed animals act as deadly traps for tsetse flies. Dr Othieno Joseph I have a concern and I think given your links with the agency tasked with eradication of tsetse flies, you are well placed ...

This is a tsetse fly target in Kenya. The sheets of dark cloth are coated with the scent of livestock to attract the tsetse and insecticide to kill it. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

African sleeping sickness is a serious infection caused by a parasitic microbe called Trypanosoma brucei. Using an imaging ...

In a study published in the journal eLife, lead author Willie Weir said they discovered that the tsetse fly existed for thousands of years only by subdividing itself without having sex and is now ...

IT has been known for a long time that the application of a ligature posterior to the brain in the larva of the blowfly, Calliphora erythrocephala Meig., prevents the pupation of the posterior ...

analysis of various transgenic fruit fly lines. In addition, the Tsetse Research Group is involved in an evaluation of an X ray irradiator (RS2400) as an alternative to gamma radiation for the ...