No it is not it gets it from a special type of plant or the animals it bites into.
tsetse
warm and humid conditions are best but in any climate it will survive!
mosquitoes and tsetse flies
Sleeping sickness is also known as trypanosomiasis or African sleeping sickness. It's caused by a small parasite that leads to a serious infection in the brain and the meninges (the covering of the brain and spinal cord) and death if not treated. It is transmitted by the tsetse fly. They usually reproduce through binary fission (dividing into two). Now there is some evidence that they do reproduce sexually as well.Reference: L. Peacock, V. Ferris, R. Sharma, J. Sunter, M. Bailey, M. Carrington, W. Gibson. Identification of the meiotic life cycle stage of Trypanosoma brucei in the tsetse fly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019423108
tsetse fly
The tsetse fly originally comes from Native Africa.
No flies are mammals.
The tsetse fly carries the agent for trypanosamiasis, also known as sleeping sickness.
The tsetse fly carries the agent for trypanosamiasis, also known as African sleeping sickness.
Tsetse Fly
a tsetse fly starts out as an egg and it stays with its mother. the blood that the mother steals helps the baby grow. then it will hatch and look a maggot. when she can carry it no longer, she releases it in the soil and the tsetse fly will grow up there.
Muscid ?
sleeping sickness
African sleeping sickness is contracted by contact with the TseTse Fly. The main habitat of the TseTse fly is between the Sahara and Kalahari Deserts.
tsetse fly termite
23 cm