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A nurse gives gives medicine, Ivermectin, against onchocerciasis or river blindness. Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images

January 27, 2023

100 million Nigerians are at risk of neglected tropical diseases: what the country is doing about it

Uwem Friday Ekpo, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta

While Nigeria has made progress in controlling some neglected tropical diseases, it should do more as it carries a heavy burden of these diseases.

When they suck your blood they can leave behind the parasite that causes sleeping sickness. Patrick Robert/Sygma via Getty Images

July 29, 2020

Bloodthirsty tsetse flies nurse their young, one live birth at a time – understanding this unusual strategy could help fight the disease they spread

Geoff Attardo, University of California, Davis

This insect’s unique reproductive biology could lead to new ways to control the species in the environment – and prevent the deadly sleeping sickness it spreads to people.

Scientific testing has zeroed in on the advantages of a zebra’s striped coat. Tim Caro

February 20, 2019

Zebra’s stripes are a no fly zone for flies

Tim Caro, University of California, Davis and Martin How, University of Bristol

How the zebra got its stripes is not only a just-so story, but an object of scientific inquiry. New research suggests that stripes help zebras evade biting flies and the deadly diseases they carry.

Modern cattle in Kenya. Steven Goldstein, Washington University St. Louis

March 10, 2015

Tooth enamel provides clues on tsetse flies and the spread of herding in ancient Africa

Kendra Chritz, University of Utah

New research upends the previous theory that tsetse flies – and the disease they carry – were the main reason the spread of livestock domestication in Africa stalled out for a thousand years.

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