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What insect carries the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness?
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∙ 9y ago
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.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 10y agoThe blood-sucking tsetse (SEET see) fly, when it feeds on an infected human or other mammal. The zooflagellate reproduces in the gut of the fly and then migrates to its salivary glands. When the fly bites the human, the zooflagellate is transferred to the human host.
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∙ 12y agoTsetse fly but it does not cause the disease, It's just the carrier...
Im pretty sure its Trypanosomiasis.
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∙ 9y agoAfrican sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is caused by a parasitic protozoa. The disease is transmitted by the bite of an infected tsetse fly.
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∙ 14y agoA trepanosome ( boring into red blood cells) protozoan similar to malarial parasite carried in the saliva of a biting insect such as the tsetse fly
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∙ 11y agoThe protist Trypanosoma causes African Sleeping Sickness.
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∙ 10y agoHuman African trypanosomiasis, sleeping sickness, is a parasitic disease of people and animals, caused by protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei and transmitted by the tsetse fly.
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∙ 6y agoIt is caused by parasite Trypanosoma brucei.
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∙ 14y agoThe tsetse fly
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TseTse. It carries the sleeping sickness.
What disease does the tsetse fly give?
The tsetse fly carries the agent for trypanosamiasis, also known as African sleeping sickness.
How do you get African sleeping sickness?
It is caused by the bite of the tsetse fly which carries the protozoa in it's saliva that causes the disease.
What do tsetese fly apart?
tsetse fly is an African fly that carries various diseases to humans and animals. Unually linked with 'sleeping sickness'
Which insect carries sleeping sickness to cattle and human?
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.
What disease does the tsetse fly cause?
The tsetse fly carries the agent for trypanosamiasis, also known as sleeping sickness.
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