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July 22, 2014

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. Using Peck's advanced computer models, crews from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization will know wh ... read more

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