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Health innovations. Neutralising the tsetse fly /

Tsetse flies, the blood-sucking insects that transmit the potentially fatal sleeping sickness disease, are usually found in Sub-Saharan Africa. But a large colony can currently be found at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in the historic city of Antwerp. Professor Jan van den Abbeele is geneticall...

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Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: London, England : SW Pictures, 2018.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Tsetse-flies > Genetic engineering.
African trypanosomiasis > Prevention.
African trypanosomiasis > Transmission.
Insects as carriers of disease.
Insect Vectors
Tsé-tsé > Génie génétique.
Trypanosomiase africaine > Transmission.
Insectes (Vecteurs de maladies)
African trypanosomiasis > Prevention
African trypanosomiasis > Transmission
Insects as carriers of disease
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Summary:Tsetse flies, the blood-sucking insects that transmit the potentially fatal sleeping sickness disease, are usually found in Sub-Saharan Africa. But a large colony can currently be found at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in the historic city of Antwerp. Professor Jan van den Abbeele is genetically modifying the flies to neutralise the disease-spreading parasites that live within them.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed December 07, 2018).
Physical Description:1 online resource (3 minutes)
Playing Time:00:03:23