Programme de lutte contre la trypanosomose africaine (PLTA)

FAO launches new virtual course to develop national capacities in fighting a transboundary animal disease

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07/04/2021

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has launched a new online course on developing national atlases of tsetse fly and African animal trypanosomosis (AAT) to promote the control of high impact Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs). Trypanosomosis is a blood-borne parasitic disease of cattle spread through the bite of a tsetse fly. A tsetse and AAT atlas is a national-level information system on the occurrence of the pest and disease in space and time.

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