BYU professor helping to eradicate fatal sleeping sickness
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jul 22, 2014 - A BYU ecologist is playing a role in the effort to curb a deadly disease affecting developing nations across equatorial Africa. Steven L. Peck, a BYU professor of biology, has lent his expertise in understanding insect movement to help shape a UN-sanctioned eradication effort of the tsetse fly-a creature that passes the fatal African sleeping sickness to humans, domestic animals, and wildlife. ... more

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