Sentences with phrase «from tsetse»
Harry said the sleeping - sickness scare from tsetse fly bites was quite overrated, that the two men who had died, the white hunter and the client, would have been all right if they'd been less stubborn and rushed on back to Maun.
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7) How were the Tsetse fly, mosquitos, etc. maintained and separated from the rest of the animals.
Lead author Paul - Yannick Bitome - Essono, from the National Center for Scientific and Technological Research, France, explains: «We thought the tsetse fly might be a good candidate in our study, as both sexes feed on blood, they are large and easily trapped, present in large numbers in Central Africa, and are opportunistic feeders with no strong preference for a particular host animal, so would feed on a large range of wildlife.»
Since then, scientists have used the technique to eradicate the screwworm fly, which causes lesions on livestock, from North and Central America; the tsetse fly, which brings sleeping sickness, from Zanzibar; and the pink bollworm, a pest of cotton, from California.
«Though human African trypanosomiasis affects thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa, the absence of a genome - wide map of tsetse biology was a major hindrance for identifying vulnerabilities,» says Dr Serap Aksoy, co-senior author from the University of Yale.
This allows the tsetse fly to counteract the responses from the host to stop bloodfeeding.
The team, composed of 146 scientists from 78 research institutes across 18 countries, analysed the genome of the tsetse fly and its 12,000 genes.
A second alternative - energy system, called Tsetse (named after the mythological African goddess of lightning), uses massive lightning - containment capacitors composed of dielectric glass and conductive metals from waste.
Yes, (part of) the current problems in pollution control, disease, starvation increases, and deaths (from malaria, dengue fever, tsetse fly, etc.) ARE due to the «climate scientists» making undue and improper predictions based on their chosen theory of CO2 = Bad For The World, We Must Control It.