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.
In 2007 the company acquired Associated Grocers, a cooperative based in Seattle with $1 billion in sales. Today Unified Grocers is the largest wholesale grocery distributor in the Western United States and serves 3,000 independent grocers, major grocery chains, and cash and carry outlets. The cooperative operates distribution centers for its 390 member and non-member stores which stock 100,000 items.