Twenty years ago this autumn, an island off the coast of Tanzania became the first in Africa to get rid of the tsetse fly thanks to a nuclear technique. Prior to eradication, losses to livestock due ...

The tsetse fly (Genus Glossina) is notable for two things: it carries parasites called trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle in sub-Saharan Africa; and it gives ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have revealed new details on how the animal disease Nagana is spread by tsetse flies in Africa. When animals are bitten by bloodsucking tsetse flies, they ...

Scientists are beginning a £2 million project to better understand a livestock disease that causes widespread economic hardship in sub-Saharan Africa. An international team will seek to learn how ...

Kampala — About 50 cows die of Nagana every month in Tororo District. A survey showed that 35 out of 100 head of cattle are infected with the disease, whose prevalence has reached alarming level, is ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. After a four-year eradication programme including nuclear ...

Sub-Saharan pastoralists could soon outwit the bloodsucking insects, tsetse flies, and prevent them from infecting their livestock with nagana. A Kenyan researcher based at the International Centre ...

Researchers have revealed new details on how the animal disease Nagana is spread by tsetse flies in Africa. Researchers at the University of Bristol have revealed new details on how the animal disease ...