Bleeding a Cape Buffalo (IMAGE)
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Dr. Sam Black and a veterinary technician collecting a blood sample from a trypanosome-infected Cape buffalo to assay trypanosome-specific antibodies in serum. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced a three-year grant to Black and others to develop a vaccine to control and cure trypanosomiasis, a fatal disease of cattle in sub-Saharan Africa and a major obstacle to raising livestock there.
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UMass Amherst
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