A new infrared system is helping the International Atomic Energy Agency to speed up the sorting of male from female tsetse flies as the agency controls the breeding of the insect using irradiation.

The goal in the world of global health is to bring an end to this scourge by 2030. A new drug looks as if it could do the job ...

Tsetse fly. The tsetse fly is the biological vector of sleeping sickness, which can be deadly. New research shows how tsetse attractants for traps may be produced from yeast. Despite their innocuous ...

The Ministry of Agriculture has embarked on sensitising and training farmers on disease and vector control. The tsetse-fly emergency eradication drive is being undertaken in Siaya, Migori and Homa Bay ...

An international team including researchers in Senegal and Burkina Faso has developed software for modelling the population dynamics of tsetse flies. It should help efforts to understand and control ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — For the first time, scientists have created a satellite-guided plan to effectively control the tsetse fly – an African killer that spreads "sleeping sickness" disease among ...

The government has sent 8,000 tsetse fly traps to Kalangala District to help control the biting insects that have recently moved from the shores of Lake Victoria into people’s homes and farms. Reports ...

Lusaka — THE tsetse fly control unit has disclosed that it has not conducted field surveys on the spread of tsetse flies for the past five years due to a lack of finances and inadequate human ...

Researchers report that they have engineered an improved colored fabric for the insecticide-treated targets used to control tsetse, based on an understanding of how flies see color. Tsetse flies ...

Mining the genome of the disease-transmitting tsetse fly, researchers have revealed the genetic adaptions that allow it to have such unique biology and transmit disease to both humans and animals. The ...

FEMALE tsetse flies mate for life. Or, to put it more accurately, they mate once in a lifetime. That gives those who would control these pests an opportunity. A female that mates with a sterile male ...