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Review Article Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/biomedres.2.007

Review on main vector and trypanosomosis control methods and future impact of the disease in economically vulnerable ethiopian  farmers

  • 1National Institute for the Control and Eradication of Tsetse Fly and Trypanosomosis, Akaki Kaliti sub-city P.O. Box 19917, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Corresponding Author

Behablom Meharenet, meharenet@yahoo.com

Received Date: August 22, 2020

Accepted Date: September 10, 2020

Abstract

Before the discovery of insecticide chemicals most of the time the rural community living in tsetse belt areas were forced to conduct bush clearing using fires, destroy forests and forest galleries for the well-being of their and their animal’s health. Tsetse flies are vectors of trypanosomes transmitting the disease called Nagana in cattle and sleeping sickness in human in these Glossina infested or belt areas. Both sexes of all tsetse species feed on the blood of vertebrate animals. The flies infected by ingesting blood meal from an infected host and remains infected for life transmitting the parasite to other animals on subsequent feeding. Based on the fact, eradication, or control of trypanosomosis indirectly involves control or eradication of the vector host, this review purposely tried to discuss the main tsetse and trypanosomosis control methods and future impact of the disease in short and precise way. 

Keywords

Vector and Trypanosomosis, Chemical control, Sterile Insect Control (SIT), Future impact

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