Sindiga I
Soc Sci Med. 1984;18(2):183-7. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(84)90039-x.
Sleeping sickness is one of the most harmful diseases in East Africa and the tsetse an ecologically important ecto-parasite and vector. In Kenya Maasailand both sleeping sickness and tsetse were insignificant at the beginning of the twentieth century. This paper examines the detailed processes which brought about the expansion of tsetse and epidemic sleeping sickness in the study area. It finds that changes in plant associations, ecosystem complexes, wildlife and human ecology enabled tsetse and trypanosomiasis to spread easily and maintain their infestation in the region. Such changes were initiated by British colonial interventions.
昏睡病是东非危害最大的疾病之一，而采采蝇是一种在生态方面具有重要意义的体外寄生虫和传播媒介。在肯尼亚的马赛兰地区，昏睡病和采采蝇在20世纪初并不严重。本文考察了导致采采蝇扩张以及研究区域内昏睡病流行的详细过程。研究发现，植物群落、生态系统复合体、野生动物和人类生态的变化，使得采采蝇和锥虫病能够在该地区轻易传播并持续存在。这些变化是由英国殖民干预引发的。
