Tsetse fly biting and feeding on a person.

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Tsetse fly biting and feeding on a person. Tsetse flies are biting flies inhabiting much of mid-continental Africa between the Sahara and the Kalahari deserts. They live by feeding on the blood of vertebrate animals and are the primary biological vectors of trypanosomes, which cause human sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana. Tsetse include all the species in the genus Glossina, which are generally placed in their own family, Glossinidae.

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Size: 5146px × 3475px
Location: Tanzania, Africa
Photo credit: © Scott Camazine / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: african, bite, blood, blood-sucking, color, colour, diptera, disease, diseases, feeding, fly, glossina, glossinidae, horizontal, human, infectious, nagana, parasitic, sickness, sleeping, trypanosomiasis, tsetse