Section B - Abstracts

1. GENERAL (INCLUDING LAND USE) 5816 Cattand, P., 1988. Sleeping sickness re-awakes. World Health, 1988 (July): 24-25. Trypanosomiases and Leishmaniases Unit, WHO, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. An alarming increase in the number of sleeping sickness cases in many historically endemic areas, where previously good surveillance had reduced incidence to a very low level, demonstrates what can happen when surveillance activities are reduced. Control and preventive measures must be put into effect now before the devastating sleeping sickness situation of the early part of the century is re-experienced. New field-adapted diagnostic methods are now available, a new drug, DFMO, is currently under experiment for patients not responding to the classical trypanocidal drugs, and vector control has been improved considerably with the introduction of efficient, simple and inexpensive tsetse traps. In 1984, WHO launched a programme entitled `Primary health care approach towards the control and prevention of sleeping sickness'. This aims to assist countries in setting up their own national programmes by making available information and training, and also by providing a supply line for equipment, material, reagents and drugs. 2. tsetse biology (a) REARING OF TSETSE FLIES 5817 Filledier, J. and Bauer, B., 1988. L'élevage de Glossina morsitans submorsitans Newstead, 1910 (Diptera Glossinidae) au CRTA de Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. I. Adaptation d'une souche sauvage aux conditions d'élevage en laboratoire sur animaux nourriciers. [Rearing of G. m. submorsitans at CRTA, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. I. Adaptation of a wild strain to laboratory rearing conditions using host animals.] Revue d'Elevage et de Médecine vétérinaire des Pays tropicaux, 41 (1): 87-92. CRTA, B.P. 454, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. As part of CRTA's programme of research into the control of tsetse, carried out in order to create a `welcome' pasture area at Sideradougou, the need for sterile male G. m. submorsitans for release has made necessary the mass breeding of this species. 11,182 pupae, produced in the bush by females captured in the Comoe region (south-western Burkina Faso), were taken to CRTA in 1981 in order to create the parental generation. After a long stationary period of adaptation, the goal was reached during 1984. This article summarises the results obtained from the start of rearing through to June 1984 (beginning of mass production) and describes the difficulties encountered in adapting G. m. submorsitans to laboratory conditions using domestic animals (rabbits, goats) as hosts. The