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RSS Feeds`Antelope perfume` keeps flies away from cows
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

 
 

20 october 2017 16:22:23

 
`Antelope perfume` keeps flies away from cows
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)
 


In Africa, tsetse flies transfer sleeping sickness to cattle. This leads to huge losses in milk, meat and manpower. The damage in Africa is estimated to be about $4.6 billion U.S. each year. Prof. Dr. Christian Borgemeister from the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn and his colleagues from Kenya and the UK have developed an innovative way of preventing the disease. The scientists took advantage of the fact that tsetse flies avoid waterbucks, a widespread antelope species in Africa. The scientists imitated the smell of these antelopes. Eighty percent of cattle equipped with collars containing the defense agent were spared from the infection. This research results are presented in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.


 
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