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Tsetse fly
Tsetse
(, , or ), sometimes spelled
tzetze
and also known as
tik-tik
flies, are large
biting flies
that inhabit much of midcontinental
Africa
between the
Sahara
and the
Kalahari
Deserts. They live by feeding on the
blood
of
vertebrate
animals and are the primary African
biological vectors
of
trypanosomes
, which cause
human sleeping sickness
and
animal trypanosomiasis
, also known as
nagana
. Tsetse flies include all the species in the
genus
Glossina
, which are generally placed in their own family,
Glossinidae
.
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