Restricted application of insecticides: a promising tsetse control technique, but what do the farmers think of it?

• Main Authors: Fanny Bouyer (Author), Seyni Hamadou (Author), Hassane Adakal (Author), Renaud Lancelot (Author), Frédéric Stachurski (Author), Adrien M G Belem (Author), Jérémy Bouyer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Restricted application of insecticides to cattle is a cheap and safe farmer-based method to control tsetse. In Western Africa, it is applied using a footbath, mainly to control nagana and the tick Amblyomma variegatum. In Eastern and Southern Africa, it might help controlling the human d...