sleeping sickness is caused by called trypanosome and most known trypanosomes are insect parasites. Crithidia mellificae, a trypanosome once thought exclusive to honeybees, was turning up in mammals. Marmosets coatis , fruit bats, crab-eating foxes and ocelots are all now known to host it. He therefore wondered if there was something special about this particular trypanosome that allowed these leaps into mammals to happen and whether, if there was, its adaptation to honeybees might be that something. Do you think that sleeping sickness could arrived via beehives?

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