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From Ubombo to Mzhuzi: disease, colonial science, and the control of Nagana (Livestock Trypanosomosis) in Zululand, South Africa, c. 1894-1953
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This article looks at the scientific studies and debates that surrounded the control of nagana (trypanosomosis in livestock) in Zululand, South Africa, from the late nineteenth century until the 1950s. By 1953 the disease appeared to be contained following the use of DDT to exterminate the tsetse fly that spread the infection from immune wildlife to susceptible livestock. It argues that South Africa made an important contribution to western knowledge about trypanosomosis in terms of ots etiol...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/jhmas/jrn003
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- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 63
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 285-322
- Publication date:
- 2008-07-01
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1468-4373
- ISSN:
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0022-5045
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- English
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- 2010-11-05
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- Copyright holder:
- Brown, K
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Brown, K. (2008). 'From Ubombo to Mkhuzi: disease, colonial science, and the control of Nagana (Livestock Trypanosomosis) in Zululand, South Afria, c. 1894-1953', Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 63(3), 285-322. [The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available at http://jhmas.oxfordjournals.org/].
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