Many parts of Africa are uninhabitable due to this fly that spreads African sleeping sickness
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Human African trypanosomiasis | eMedMD.com  Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) is caused by two subspecies ... of gambiense and rhodesiense sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa, 1999 ... Many areas were long rendered uninhabitable for people and livestock. ... During the blood meal on an infected mammalian host, the tsetse fly takes up...
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Tsetse fly - Wikipedia  Tsetse sometimes spelled tzetze and also known as tik-tik flies, are large biting flies that inhabit much of midcontinental Africa between the Sahara and the Kalahari Deserts. They live by feeding on the blood of vertebrate animals and are the primary African biological vectors of trypanosomes, which cause human sleeping .... The disease nagana or African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT) causes...
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WHO | Trypanosomiasis, human African (sleeping sickness)  WHO fact sheet on Human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping ... Tsetse flies are found just in sub-Saharan Africa though only certain species ... far unexplained, in many regions where tsetse flies are found, sleeping sickness is not. ... from one country to another as well as in different parts of a single country.
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CDC - African Trypanosomiasis - General Information - East African ...  Aug 29, 2012 ... Related Links ... The tsetse fly is found only in rural Africa. ... East African trypanosomiasis is found in parts of Eastern and Southeastern Africa.
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TODAYS TRIVIA-CLOUDEIGHT INTERNET START PAGE  Aug 29, 2007 ... ... the Great Fire? Answer #5. Many parts of Africa are uninhabitable due to this fly that spreads African sleeping sickness. What is the tsetse fly?
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Mosquitoes and Disease - Illinois Department of Public Health  Even today, mosquitoes transmitting malaria kill 2 million to 3 million people and infect ... diseases, including filariasis, yellow fever, dengue and encephalitis. ... Mosquitoes belong to the group of insects known as diptera, or flies. In fact, mosquito means little fly in Spanish. ... This is how mosquitoes transmit disease.
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Diseases transmitted by insects and ticks - CMETE  Insects (mosquitoes, lice, fleas, bed bugs) and ticks are able to transmit a number ... They transmit certain specific diseases according to the specific species, climate ... virus, dengue fever, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, lymphatic filariasis. ... The disease is caused by a unicellular blood-dwelling parasite of the genus...
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African Countries - Game Four - Sheppard Software  Botswana. Chad. Egypt. Gabon. Guinea. Kenya. Liberia. Libya. Madagascar ... The economy, closely tied to South Africa's, is dominated by cattle raising ... Although the country is land-locked, much of its western border is adjacent to ... It shares land borders with Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, Israel to the North East.
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WHO | Trypanosomiasis, human African (sleeping sickness)  The people most exposed to the tsetse fly and therefore the disease live in rural areas ... Human African trypanosomiasis takes 2 forms, depending on the parasite ... They are transmitted to humans by tsetse fly (Glossina genus) bites which have ... Tsetse flies are found just in sub-Saharan Africa though only certain species...
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1. The burden of malaria in Africa - Against Malaria  About 90% of all malaria deaths in the world today occur in Africa south of the Sahara. This is because the majority of ... Malaria affects the lives of almost all people living in the area of .... continent but none in central Africa. Recently, data from...
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Newsela | Millions of dead bees are a side effect of spray meant to ...  Sep 8, 2016 ... Millions of dead bees are a side effect of spray meant to control Zika spread ... The program head, Dr. Mike Weyman, said South Carolina has strict rules about ... Many people have only mild symptoms from the disease. ... But he described a 2015 Florida International University study that found Naled...
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Flagellate | Word Flagellate at Open Dictionary of English by ...  One nasty flagellate causes African trypanosomiasis, this disease marked by lethargy. Even though I'm an optimist, I didn't expect him to flagellate himself and...
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Tsetse fly - Wikipedia  Tsetse sometimes spelled tzetze and also known as tik-tik flies, are large biting flies that inhabit .... Like all other insects, tsetse flies have an adult body comprising three visibly .... The disease nagana or African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT) causes .... This disease is invariably fatal unless treated but can almost always be...
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What is African sleeping sickness? | Facts | yourgenome.org  Jan 25, 2016 ... African trypanosomiasis is a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly. ... Nagana disease is a form of trypanosomiasis that affects vertebrate animals such ... for domestic animals, the infection can be severe and sometimes fatal. .... Fewer people carrying the parasite means the tsetse fly is less likely to...
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Diseases transmitted by insects and ticks - CMETE  Insects (mosquitoes, lice, fleas, bed bugs) and ticks are able to transmit a number of ... Besides the transmission of various diseases, a tick bite can, in its own right, be the cause ... parasite of the genus Plasmodium, transmitted by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles. ... Dengue Fever is a viral disease caused by a Flavivirus.
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Tsetse fly | Define Tsetse fly at Dictionary.com  Tsetse fly definition, any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus ... are certain wide belts of land in Africa called the "tsetse fly belts," where horses,...
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Medical Ecology >> Infectious Diseases >> Application >> African ...  Medical Ecology of Sleeping Sickness, Part I: The Vector ... Sir David Bruce ... were the causative agents of sleeping sickness transmitted to humans by tsetse flies, .... Tsetse populations are denser in West and Central Africa, and are found ..... the spraying is administered discriminatively to day and night resting sites during...
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Malaria - Wikipedia  Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by ... The disease is widespread in the tropical and subtropical regions that exist in ..... mosquitoes can be killed before they can bite another person and transfer .... About 125 million pregnant women are at risk of infection each year;...
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Tsetse Fly Genome Decoded, May Hold Clues To Fighting African ...  Apr 24, 2014 ... ... fly, the bloodsucking insect that spreads deadly African sleeping sickness, ... The tsetse fly genome was double the size of a fruit fly's but only a tenth as ... They have existed far longer than people; a tsetse fly fossil found in...
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Full text of "Insects affecting domestic animals : an account of the ...  The sheep bot-fly or head maggot 102 The reindeer hot or deer hot (p. ..... It is also interesting to inquire as to the eftect of the parasitic life upon the ...... 40 INSECTS AFFECTING DOMESTIC ANIMALS. under the name of iShmdium sericeum. ...... Mass., was bitten to death by these green- heads; and it is known that horses...