ArticleBioscience2019
The Ethics of Eliminating Harmful Species: The Case of the Tsetse Fly.
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- Allergic reactions associated with tsetse fly bites.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Optimizing Health Across Humans, Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems: How Long Before Benefits Turn Harmful-and Harm Becomes Healing?Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Review
- Global hotspots and academic trends of vector-borne diseases in the order Diptera (Arthropoda: Insecta): a bibliometric visualisation.Folia parasitologica · 2025Article
- Dissecting the sterility phenotype in gene edited Drosophila suzukii pgSIT males.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Diversity of Glossinidae (Diptera) species in The Gambia in relation to vegetation.Revista brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria = Brazilian journal of veterinary parasitology : Orgao Oficial do Colegio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria · 2024Article
- The potential economic benefits of controlling trypanosomiasis using waterbuck repellent blend in sub-Saharan Africa.PloS one · 2021Article
- Environmental impact of tsetse eradication in Senegal.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The impact of vector migration on the effectiveness of strategies to control gambiense human African trypanosomiasis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- Sustainable Elimination (Zero Cases) of Sleeping Sickness: How Far Are We from Achieving This Goal?Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
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Abstract
Wildlife species harmful to humans are often targets of control and elimination programs. A contemporary example is the tsetse fly, a vector of sleeping sickness and African animal trypanosomosis. Tsetse flies have recently been targeted by a pan-African eradication campaign. If it is successful, the campaign could push the entire tsetse family to extinction. With the emergence of effective and efficient elimination technologies, ethical assessment of proposed elimination campaigns is urgently needed. We examine the ethics of tsetse fly elimination by considering arguments predicated on both the instrumental and the intrinsic values of the species at local and global scales. We conclude that, although global eradication of tsetse flies is not ethically justified, localized elimination campaigns targeting isolated populations are ethically defensible. We urge assessments of this kind be conducted regularly and in context, so that all relevant factors underlying decisions on species elimination are routinely laid bare for evaluation.
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