Following sleeping sickness epidemic in S. E. Uganda in 1976-1990, focus on G. pallidipes in the area was diminished as G. f. fuscipes was incriminated the sole vector of the human form of disease. The occurrence and re-description of the G. pallidipes distribution belt in Busia and the neighbouring districts in S. E. Uganda shall provide baseline data to support the EEC/OAU funded - Farming in Tsetse Controlled Areas (FITCA) programme especially so, for implementing tsetse control in the project districts. Trypanosome incidence has been low considering that farmers in the study area lost cattle following CBPP epidemics and cattle re-stockers are more aware of the disease control and for trypanosomosis in animals, they are practicing chemo-prophylaxy, while most human cases are passively reporting for treatment. The implications of G. pallidipes belt traversing G.f. fuscipes foci and strategies for nagana and sleeping sickness and tsetse research and control and other parameters being looked at are discussed.
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The ESA 2001 Annual Meeting - 2001: An Entomological Odyssey of ESA