Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1919 — The Tsetse Fly. [ARTICLE]

The Tsetse Fly.

The dreaded “tsetse fly (pronounced tset-se, accent on first syllable, whose vowel e has short sound, as in set) is an African gadfly,“about the size of a housefly. The symptoms of its victim are at first those of a severe fold. The eyes, nose and mouth begin to “run," the body then swells while emaciation sets in, although not always fatal. The harm done is found to be not tbe result of poison from the itself, but communication to the blood of Its victim of a microscopic parasite similar to that of Texas fever which It has received from a diseased animal. Animals or persons that recover are usually immune. The great dread of this fly formerly entertained has proved to be unjustified.