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AT a conference convened jointly by the French, Belgian and British Colonial authorities and recently held at Brazzaville, French Congo, to which the Governments of Portuguese territories in Africa, of Southern Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa also sent delegates, arrangements were made for the uniform mapping of the whole of Africa south of the Sahara to show the incidence of trypanosomiasis in man and domestic animals and of the various species of tsetse fly which transmit it. It was also agreed to establish, at Brazzaville and Leopoldville, a joint bureau for the rapid exchange of information on methods of controlling the disease, and to set up in Europe a scientific committee on an international basis to supervise the organisation of research. These conclusions will now be forwarded to the Governments of all the African territories as recommendations for a concerted effort to control the disease and to work towards its gradual elimination.
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International Conference on Sleeping Sickness. Nature 161, 306 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161306c0
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