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Definition of nagana in English: nagananoun nəˈɡɑːnənəˈɡänə mass nounA disease of cattle, antelope, and other livestock in southern Africa, characterized by fever, lethargy, and oedema, and caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by the tsetse fly. Example sentencesExamples - Tsetse flies that infect cattle with nagana (animal trypanosomosis) have been ‘all but eradicated from Zimbabwe's farming areas’ he says.
- Here's an interesting strategy to control and eradicate sleeping sickness and nagana.
- The tsetse fly carries the trypanosome parasite, which causes sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock.
- Trypanosomiasis, also locally known as nagana, threatens some 50 million cattle in Africa, according to a recent report by FAO.
- Further north the scourge of tsetse fly, vector of the disease nagana, limited the use of cattle as draught.
Origin Late 19th century: from Zulu nakane. Definition of nagana in US English: nagananounnəˈɡänə A disease of cattle, antelope, and other livestock in southern Africa, characterized by fever, lethargy, and edema, and caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by the tsetse fly. Example sentencesExamples - Tsetse flies that infect cattle with nagana (animal trypanosomosis) have been ‘all but eradicated from Zimbabwe's farming areas’ he says.
- Further north the scourge of tsetse fly, vector of the disease nagana, limited the use of cattle as draught.
- The tsetse fly carries the trypanosome parasite, which causes sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock.
- Trypanosomiasis, also locally known as nagana, threatens some 50 million cattle in Africa, according to a recent report by FAO.
- Here's an interesting strategy to control and eradicate sleeping sickness and nagana.
Origin Late 19th century: from Zulu nakane. |