Sentences with phrase «sleeping sickness spread»
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More than 4,000 flies were captured, of which 30 % — mostly tsetse flies, which spread African sleeping sickness — were engorged with blood.
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Gambian sleeping sickness — a deadly parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies — could be eliminated in six years in key regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to new research by the University of Warwick.
In 2012, the World Health Organization set two public health goals for the control of Gambian sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease spread by the tsetse fly.
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.