African Sleeping Sickness. African sleeping sickness is a disease caused by the protozoa, which are carried by the tsetse fly and are transmitted to humans through tsetse fly bites.This disease is fairly damaging to the human body and can cause serious illness.nfections caused by protozoa are contagious. Those protozoa that have inhabited the human intestine can be transmitted from one human to the other via the fecal-oral route, such as through sharing food the infected person has touched and through direct person to person contact.
Sysco Sells 11 US Foods Distribution Centers to Performance Food Group. Sysco Corp., Houston, Texas, reached a definitive agreement to sell 11 US Foods distribution facilities to Performance Food Group, Richmond, Va., pending its merger with US Foods, Rosemont, Ill.
US Foods, the Rosemont, Ill., based food distributor, opened its first Chef'store in Charlotte, N.C., in November; Oklahoma City is the second. The company has 64 distribution centers, including two in Oklahoma City.