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A low Density of Tsetse Flies associated with a high Incidence of Sleeping Sickness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

T. A. M. Nash
T. A. M. Nash
Affiliation:
Medical Entomologist, Sleeping Sickness Service, Nigeria.
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In 1935, Dr. Anderson made a sleeping sickness survey of the Kudaru District of Zaria Emirate, Northern Nigeria, where he found a high incidence of the disease. In the extreme case of the small hamlet of Sambo, he recorded a 70 per cent, infection rate among the 43 inhabitants.

The writer followed up this survey with an entomological investigation in the late dry season, and paid particular attention to. this hamlet.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , April 1944 , pp. 51
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1944

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