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...whole herds of galloping zebras and wildebeests to be stalked and shot to stop nagana-native name for a form of African sleeping sickness. Harmless to game animals, nagana is deadly to domestic cattle, with a mortality rate of close to 50%. It is carried by a tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) closely related to the tsetse (G. palpalis) which infects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drowsing Death | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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