Where, when and why do tsetse contact humans? Answers from studies in a national park of Zimbabwe.

• Main Authors: Stephen J Torr (Author), Andrew Chamisa (Author), T N Clement Mangwiro (Author), Glyn A Vale (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Sleeping sickness, also called human African trypanosomiasis, is transmitted by the tsetse, a blood-sucking fly confined to sub-Saharan Africa. The form of the disease in West and Central Africa is carried mainly by species of tsetse that inhabit riverine woodland and feed avidly on huma...