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The tsetse fly is the primary carrier of Trypanosoma brucei. T. brucei are a parasitic, single flagella protozoa that causes African trypanosomiasis(sleeping sickness) in humans and Nagana (animal African trypanosomiasis). T. brucei produces the chemical Tryptophol during the neurological phase of the disease that induces sleep.
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Which insect carries a sickness called malaria?
The inscet the Mosquitoe carries this sickness.
Sleeping sickness is carried by which insect?
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What insect causes African sleeping sickness?
Tsetse fly
What is the African blood sucking insect with sleeping sickness?
Tsetse fly
Which insect spreads sleeping sickness?
Tse-Tse Fly by 05doye4682
An insect which causes a disease called sleeping sickness?
the sleeping disease is transmited by the tse tse fly
What bloodsucking insect in Africa infects people and animals with sleeping sickness?
Mosquitoes
Is sleeping sickness a noninfectious disease?
No. But you get it from an insect vector, not another human being.
What blood sucking insect causes a sleeping disorder?
The tsetse fly. This insect feeds on the blood of animals and humans. It carry's a parasite that can invade your body resulting in a slow agonizing death locally known as sleeping sickness
What happens physically to someone when they get African sleeping sickness?
African Sleeping Sickness is most primarily transmitted through a insect in Africa that bites you and infects you. However, African Sleeping Sickness can also be a Sexually Transmitted Disease.
What is 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.
What insect carries the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness?
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.
