Every now and then I get a referral from The International Atomic Energy Agency. Sadly, though, I can never find a link on their site to mine. They have articles on radiation leaks in Georgia and upgrading nuclear security, but nothing about the atomic structure of Gagne. I’ll have to assume that one of my readers just happens to be an atomic energy buff, too. At least I found this interesting press release about the tsetse fly there:
A new campaign to control the deadly tsetse fly in Africa, parasitic carrier of sleeping sickness, has been launched by the Organization of African Unity (OAU).
African sleeping sickness affects as many as 500,000 people, 80 percent of whom eventually die, and the bite of the fly causes more than $4 billion in economic losses annually.
The tsetse fly has turned much of the fertile African landscape into an uninhabited “green desert,” spreading sleeping sickness — and killing 3 million livestock animals every year. The fly is the carrier of the single cell parasite, trypanosome, which attacks the blood and nervous system of its victims, causing sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock. The biting tsetse fly transmits it when its seeks a blood meal.
That’s a heck of a lot of dead animals. Sleeping Sickness just can’t be cool. Good luck to you, OAU!
I found this so intresting and i have a dubt and cant find answers here in my country:is i true that waters resorts with radioactivity don’t suffer from the dengue fever epidemics which is spreading around south america and other countries.do you know anything about this?sorry but i’m so desperate about this here in brazil that any kind of help would be great