BugBitten: A blog for the parasites and vectors community
Hilary Hurd
Coordinating Editor at BugBitten
Hilary is Professor of Parasitology Emeritus at Keele University, UK, having retired at the end of 2013. Her research interests have revolved around parasites transmitted by insects and their interactions with their vectors. She was Director of the Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology at Keele for over ten years and served as President of the British Society for Parasitology.
The importance of community commitment to tsetse control
A tsetse control project conducted in Burkina Faso reveals the importance of the engagement of local communities.
Tsetse fly from Burkino Faso. Source Wikipedia
Tsetse are large biting flies found in areas of woody scrub and bush across much of tropical Africa. Because they are vectors of trypanosome parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in domesticated animals, their presence makes large tracks of land unsuitable for rearing cattle or farming.
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