Postgraduate Hot Topic: Swatting out disease
A Entomology article writen by Dr Steve Torr who is a reader in veterinary entomology at the University of Greenwich’s Natural Resources Institute. He has more than 25 years experience of working on methods to control vector-borne diseases of livestock and humans.
In a 10 million km2 area of sub-Saharan Africa, about 30,000 people and two million cattle die of either sleeping sickness or ‘nagana’ each year – diseases that are transmitted by tsetse flies. The 37 countries affected by tsetse are amongst the poorest in the world, and political,...
