Eradicating fatal sleeping sickness by killing off the tsetse fly

(Brigham Young University) Steven L. Peck, a BYU professor of biology, has lent his expertise in understanding insect movement to help shape a UN-sanctioned eradication effort of the tsetse fly -- a creature that passes the fatal African sleeping sickness to humans, domestic animals, and wildlife.Results of the effort appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news