| Description | Prepared by Miss Robertson for the Tropical Diseases Committee. Describes the discoveries of a safari in the Northern Province [of Uganda] to determine the carrier of the parasite T pecorum. Describes the relationship between local wild game and cattle herds in the transmission of [sleeping sickness].Estimates the number of infected cattle. Points out that passengers on the Masindi Port road are frequently bitten by [tsetse] that do not carry a human strain, but that should the flies become infected all the conditions are right for spreading of the disease. Outlines a scheme to prevent introduction of the disease by regulating cattle movement, limiting travel with mules and donkeys, clearing the bush, etc. Part of a series of despatches bound between p91 and 92. |