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Tsatse Fly Repallant From Waterbuck
Farmer's Weekly
|10 November 2017
Prof Christian Borgemeister, a leading entomologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, researchers from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology and the Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources in Kenya, as well as Rothamsted Research in the UK, have developed a tsetse fly repellent for cows from waterbuck odour.
Tsetse flies are vectors of the parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, which causes sleeping sickness. The parasite is transferred to cattle and humans when bitten by an infected tsetse fly. In humans, sleeping sickness is fatal if left untreated. In cattle, it reduces milk and meat production, causing losses estimated at US$4,6 billion (R63 billion) a year.
This story is from the 10 November 2017 edition of Farmer's Weekly.
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