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Pesky African fly
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tsetse
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n. Any fly of the genus ''Glossina'', native to Africa, that feeds on human and animal blood; known primarily as a carrier of parasitic trypanosomes.
Usage examples of tsetse.
So he discovered that the nagana microbes may lurk in game, waiting to be carried to gentler beasts by the tsetse.
I have to say, whether it was on account of their poor condition, or because the tsetse in those parts is more poisonous than usual, I do not know, but ours succumbed to its onslaught.
It is spread from person to person by the bite of the tsetse fly, which carries the protozoon and is famous for that reason.
David Bruce, stumbling though the African bush, got onto the trail of the tsetse fly, accused him, convicted him.
In Africa, amazing progress has been made in the eradication of the tsetse fly using baited traps made from plastic bags, a few feet of cloth, and some staples.
Quite different from trypanosomiasis, the African malady carried by the tsetse fly.
From the stationary position behind the dune, Gregorius made every burst of fire sweep the oncoming hulls, driving the Latin tempers of the crews into frenzy, like the sting of a tsetse fly on the belly of a bull buffalo.
To find out how long a tsetse fly can carry the trypanosomes on his stinger they put cages of flies on sick dogs and then at intervals of hours, and days, let them feed on healthy ones.
Bruce held dying monkeys across their flanks, and let harmless tsetses, bred in the laboratory, feed on the monkey and then on the buck.
How melancholy and lean have been the years, since then, for that murderous tick whose proper name is Boophius bovis, and you may be sure that since those searchings of David Bruce, the tsetses have had to bootleg for the blood of black natives and white hunters, and missionaries.
Even Albert Schweitzer's reverence for life didn't include the tapeworm, the tsetse fly, the cancer cell.
The free ride may be provided by mosquitoes, fleas, lice, or tsetse flies that spread malaria, plague, typhus, or sleeping sickness, respectively.
The nearest thing to it is the bacillus one finds in oxen, horses and dogs that the tsetse fly has bitten.
Mark was close enough to see the dark specks of the tsetse fly sitting on her flanks.
As a consequence, another thing that abounded was the dreadful tsetse fly, whose bite is death to domestic animals.