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tsetse fly

NOUN
  1. bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.

How To Use tsetse fly In A Sentence

  • It is caused by the trypanosoma parasite, which enters the bloodstream through the bite of the tsetse fly.
  • Some say it is because the natives who get their living by hammock - carrying poison them, others say the tsetse fly finishes them off; and others, and these I believe are right, say that entozoa are the cause. Travels in West Africa
  • Some say it is because the natives who get their living by hammock-carrying poison them, others say the tsetse fly finishes them off; and others, and these I believe are right, say that entozoa are the cause. Travels in West Africa
  • The main health threats are sleeping sickness, transmitted by the tsetse fly, and malaria.
  • Spread by bites from the tsetse fly, it can lie unnoticed in the blood for months, even years. Times, Sunday Times
  • One variety of trypanosomiasis causes sleeping sickness and is carried by tsetse fly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The tsetse fly transmits sleeping sickness, midges transmits lumpy skin disease and three-day stiff sickness.
  • Because of the presence of the tsetse fly, large animals such as cattle and goats are not kept.
  • It is caused by a protozoan, Trypanosoma brucei, which is transmitted to humans through the bite of a tsetse fly.
  • Local officials in central-eastern Maniema Province said sleeping sickness, a fatal disease transmitted by the tsetse fly and formally known as trypanosomiasis, was on the rise with at least 120 new cases reported in 2001. ANC Daily News Briefing
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