An insect is responsible for a $5 billion annual loss in the food sector in Africa

With losses of up to $5 billion a year, the tsetse fly pandemic has a detrimental influence on Africa's ability to produce meat.The disease has afflicted an area of around 10 million square kilometers, of which about a third is pastureland where animals could ordinarily generate more meat, according to the most recent data from the African Union-Inter African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR). "Resistance to several medications has been documented in 21 nations in Africa, where there are over 2.1 billion heads of chicken, 490 million goats, 420 million sheep, 370 million heads of cattle, and other economically useful animals. This poses a serious danger to disease prevention as well as the continent's economy, according to a portion of the paper. The information was released in conjunction with the 36th International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control Conference, which was held recently in Mombasa, Kenya.