She's speaking of sub-Saharan Africa's Glossina flies» «really cool biology,» not their ability to spread the parasite that gives humans and some other vertebrates potentially
fatal sleeping sickness.
Not exact matches
Without melarsoprol,
sleeping sickness is
fatal, yet the treatment itself kills 1 in 20.
Tsetse are the insect vector of the trypanosomiasis parasite which causes disease in animals (with major knock - on effects on the farmers who are financially dependent on their livestock), and
sleeping sickness in people (
fatal when not properly treated).