The goal in the world of global health is to bring an end to this scourge by 2030. A new drug looks as if it could do the job ...

Sleeping sickness has been killing people across Africa for generations. A disease with no vaccine, spread by the bite of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this June 1, 2002 file photo dead tsetse flies on display in a laboratory run by the International Livestock Research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a ...

Scientists have identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The discovery ...

Mining the genome of the disease-transmitting tsetse fly, researchers have revealed the genetic adaptions that allow it to have such unique biology and transmit disease to both humans and animals. The ...

Geoff Attardo receives funding from National Institutes of Health (#1R21AI128523-01A1 - Unraveling Intersexual Interactions in Tsetse) and the Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne ...