The Fear of radiation has come to the tsetse fly, but in this case it is warranted. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), partnering with the Senegalese government and the United Nations FAO, used a radiation-based Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to almost completely eradicate the tsetse fly scourge in the Niayes region of this West African nation.
The tsetse fly is a bloodsucking insect that kills more than three million livestock in sub-Saharan Africa every year with the nagana wasting disease, sickens and kills over 75,000 people with the sleeping sickness, and destroys over 4 billion dollars each year in agriculture. But that is about to change.
Original working URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/04/02/irradiating-and-eradicating-the-tsetse-fly-scourge/#61a52b7d5c04
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