After a while I became quite good at spotting tsetse flies in the bungalow. |
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Because of the presence of the tsetse fly, large animals such as cattle and goats are not kept. |
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The visual system of the tsetse fly is particularly sensitive to large blocks of contrasting color. |
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The tsetse fly transmits sleeping sickness, midges transmits lumpy skin disease and three-day stiff sickness. |
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Due to the altitude, much of the region is free of malarial mosquitoes and the tsetse and other flies that spread human and animal diseases. |
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The main health threats are sleeping sickness, transmitted by the tsetse fly, and malaria. |
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The tsetse fly transmits sleeping sickness, midges transmit lumpy skin disease and three-day stiff sickness. |
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Further north the scourge of tsetse fly, vector of the disease nagana, limited the use of cattle as draught. |
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The same is true of tsetse flies that bring sleeping sickness to animals. |
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The tsetse fly carries the trypanosome parasite, which causes sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock. |
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Lowland barriers and diseases carried by the tsetse fly, however, prevented the donkey and agriculture from spreading southwards. |
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Government has started a crusade against tsetse flies in Busoga province following many animals in Luuka District were detected with nagana, a disease caused by the insects. |
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The tsetse fly spreads the parasitic diseases human African trypanosomiasis, known as sleeping sickness, and Nagana that infect humans and animals respectively. |
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The identification, diversity and prevalence of trypanosomes in field caught tsetse in Tanzania using ITS-1 primers and fluorescent fragment length barcoding. |
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