Tsetse flies carry trypanosamiasis (sleeping sickness). This disease is incredibly dangerous and is nearly always fatal.
African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Disease)
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.
The tsetse fly originally comes from Native Africa.
The tsetse fly is a large biting insect native to Africa, and it is dangerous because it has been identified as a disease vector. The fly bites victims to drink blood, and can infect that victim. A bitten individual may get sleeping sickness. Nagana, a disease affecting cattle, can be passed on to these herd animals. A link can be found below.
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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
African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Disease)
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.
tsetse fly
The tsetse fly originally comes from Native Africa.
Human African Trypanosomiasis, Sleeping Sickness, African lethargy or Congo Trypanosomiasis are all names for the same disease of people and animals which is caused by a parasitic protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei, transmitted by the bite of the Tsetse Fly.
The tsetse fly is a large biting insect native to Africa, and it is dangerous because it has been identified as a disease vector. The fly bites victims to drink blood, and can infect that victim. A bitten individual may get sleeping sickness. Nagana, a disease affecting cattle, can be passed on to these herd animals. A link can be found below.
A. A. Kanthack has written: 'On nagana or tsetse fly disease' -- subject(s): Tsetse-flies 'A course of elementary practical bacteriology' -- subject(s): Accessible book
It is caused by the bite of the tsetse fly which carries the protozoa in it's saliva that causes the disease.
No flies are mammals.