Word: nagana
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...white hunters oiled their guns. In the Zulu villages the old men rolled their eyes as they chattered of the slaughter to come-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...
Last week the South African Government ordered the slaughter of 15,000 game animals in Zululand. The hope was that no game would mean no nagana. The great Hluhluwe Reserve, last home of the white rhinoceros, will not be invaded, but in the surrounding areas the waterbuck and hartebeest, the dainty duiker and the lordly kudu*-all the smooth-haunched animals on whose bellies the tsetse feeds-will be exterminated by professional hunters under supervision of the government...
...Although nagana is not known in the U.S., other drowsing diseases are. Recently Colonel John C. Woodland and Major Emmett M. Smith of the Army Medical Corps reported in the A.M.A. Journal: "Epidemics of acute infectious encephalitis are increasing in frequency and severity." Treating 13 soldiers at Fort Sam Houston last summer, the two Army doctors verified the belief that the disease may exist clinically in the U.S. without positive laboratory identification. Epidemic encephalitis, erroneously called "sleeping sickness," is not related to the curse of Africa but it has many of the same symptoms and apparently shares the same animal...
...disease, instead of waiting for 'disease to attack. He was enthusiastic about the work of the Rockefeller Foundation in attacking the sources of the hookworm disease, yellow fever and malaria. He told how sleeping sickness had been eliminated in Uganda by control of the tsetse fly, and how nagana, or Texas fever, had been similarly controlled in Zululand, when it was found that the same fly was the carrier...
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