AFRICA: CAMPAIGN TO ERADICATE TSETSE FLY.(Brief Article)

From: Europe Agri | Date: May 24, 2002 | Copyright information

By eradicating the tsetse and with it trypanosomiasis, the FAO hopes to enable rural Africans to reclaim areas of their continent and greatly increase food production. The biting tsetse fly transmits a potentially fatal parasite, trypanosome, which attacks the blood and nervous system of its victims. Approximately 60 million people are at risk from sleeping sickness and it affects 500,000 people. Three million livestock animals die from it each year while 50 million animals are at ...

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