Encyclopedia entry: tsetse fly

Article: tsetse fly
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      367 words ...tsetse fly , name for any of several ... housefly . The larva of the tsetse fly develops inside the body ... encephalitis ). The tsetse fly also carries the trypanosomes ... Insecta, order Diptera, family Muscidae. See insect .

Article: U.N. AGENCIES TO ERADICATE TSETSE FLY IN ETHIOPIA'S ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 1, 2006 ;     509 words ... ... joint IAEA-FAO project to remove the tsetse fly and the diseases it transmits from the ... Ridding the Southern Rift Valley of the tsetse fly will reduce pressure on overcrowded hillsides ... retreated to escape the spread of the tsetse fly, leaving fertile river valleys unused ...

Article: Zimbabwe sets new target barriers in tsetse fly ...
Xinhua News Agency;  March 3, 2006 ;     550 words ...Zimbabwe sets new target barriers in tsetse fly prone areas HARARE, March 3 (Xinhua ... has set new target barriers in all the tsetse fly prone areas in Nyanga, Karoi and the ... the areas bordering the two countries. Tsetse fly, which causes the Nagana illness in ...

Article: Aerial assault on the tsetse fly: researchers have ...
Environment;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... healthy livestock. Twenty-two species of tsetse fly infest 36 countries in sub-Saharan ... the insect world. Only one species of tsetse fly was found to inhabit the Zanzibar island ... the mid-1940s, ground spraying of tsetse fly habitat with persistent organochlorines ...

Article: Zimbabwe intensifies efforts to eradicate tsetse ...
Xinhua News Agency;  August 24, 2002 ;     532 words ... ... Zimbabwe intensifies efforts to eradicate tsetse fly HARARE, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe ... intensifying efforts to eradicate the tsetse fly in the country. William Shereni, head ... participated. He said the eradication of the tsetse fly, which caused trypanosome, was also ...

Article: Ethiopia to Launch Tsetse Fly Wipe-Out in 1999
Xinhua English Newswire;  August 22, 1998 ;     380 words ... ... new project aimed at eradicating Tsetse fly from Ethiopia will commence in 1999 ... Deddesa and Wamma rift valleys of Tsetse fly and trypanosomiasis in four years beginning in 1999. He said that Tsetse fly is affecting 18 percent of the country ...

Article: Ethiopia Trying to Eradicate Tsetse Fly
Xinhua English Newswire;  February 27, 1998 ;     326 words ...The South Rift Valley tsetse fly control and eradication project set ... with an aim to control and eradicate tsetse fly which transmits trypanosomiasis within ... years in Ethiopia's lowland areas. Tsetse fly is the carrier of the animal killer ...