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the role of game animals in the maintenance of endemic and enzootic trypanosomiases in the lambwe valley, south nyanza district, kenya.rhodesian sleeping sickness and bovine trypanosomiasis were endemic in the lambwe valley of western kenya, where the vector of both diseases was a tsetse fly glossina pallidipes. since a large resident population of game animals also inhabited the valley, a programme was designed to assess the relationships between game animals, tsetse, and trypanosome populations and the results were collated with some aspects of local human ecology and the general epidemiological situation in the valley. of 13 ...19724544824
a history of sleeping sickness in kenya.gambian sleeping sickness entered what is now kenya from uganda in about 1901 and quickly spread along the kenyan shores and islands of lake victoria, reaching tanzania in 1902. by 1910 the disease had spread 25 miles inland along the kuja and migori rivers and their tributaries. sleeping sickness waxed and waned in these areas despite attempts to control tsetse fly populations by various methods. it was not until 1950, when the use of insecticides (ddt) applied by backpack sprayer proved succes ...19892694984
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