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AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

New study finds that urban wildlife may be a significant vector for antimicrobial resistant bacteria

Researchers entering sampling data (photo credit: Zoonoses and Emerging Diseases). In the cities of developing nations, where unregulated antibiotic use is common and livestock jostle with people amid often unsanitary conditions, scientists have found a potentially troubling vector for the...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

Deadly African swine fever arrives in China, the world’s largest producer of pigs

Africa swine fever, which recently appeared in Shenyang City, in Liaoning Province, northeastern China, threatens the USD150-billion global pig industry. This article is written by Vish Nene , co-leader of ILRI’s animal and human health program, and Han Jianlin , a population geneticist based in...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

Reducing use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock in low-income countries: Two scientists reflect on options

Graphic by Peter Hermes Furian / Shutterstock. Delia Grace Randolph, a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert who co-leads the Animal and Human Health program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Kenya, was interviewed recently by Wilton Park, a non-profit...

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

On the need for expanding sustainability frameworks and veterinary vision in developing countries

Divine bovine, painting by Karen Bezuidenhout. A new science paper argues for broadening traditional approaches to livestock sustainability and veterinary vision in developing countries. Two of the three livestock science authors—Brian Perry and Tim Robinson—have formerly worked at the...

ILRI News
Ewen Le Borgne

Scaling up use of livestock technologies in Mali—progress of a Feed the Future program

The Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program is a three-year initiative (2016–2019) promoting inclusive growth of all the actors involved in adding value to the production and marketing of ruminant livestock in this large, and largely livestock-dependent, West African country. The...

AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

An ‘urban zoo’ project in Kenya is helping unpack the spread of disease in urban environments

ILRI Clippings A woman sorts through a heap of garbage at the Dandora dumping site among other people, cattle, pigs and storks, in Nairobi (photo credit: Simon Maina / AFP / Getty Images). Written by Eric Fèvre ‘There are fears that Africa’s next major modern disease crisis will emerge from its...

AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

Zoonotic diseases featured during UNEP Science-Policy Forum

ILRI veterinary epidemiologist Delia Grace presenting at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Science-Policy Forum that preceded the second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2), on 20 May 2016 (photo credit: ILRI). The United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP )...

AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

MERS-CoV antibodies found in two people in eastern Kenya

ILRI news Transmission electron micrograph of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, MERS-CoV (image credit: NIAID). MERS-CoV belongs to the coronavirus family. Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s; MERS-CoV was first reported in 2012 in Saudi Arabia. Coronaviruses can...

AgHealth blog
Tezira Lore

Researchers develop Rift Valley fever risk map for Kenya to aid prevention and control of the disease

Cow in Kenya. A new Rift Valley fever risk map for Kenya will help develop prevention and control measures to combat the disease in the country (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). A new Rift Valley fever risk map for Kenya, based on data from a period spanning over 50 years, will be an important tool...

Safe Food Fair Food blog
Kristina Rösel

1st African Regional Conference of the International Association on Ecology and Health

Don’t miss the first-ever joint conference dedicated to improve public health and ecology from 1 to 5 October 2013 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire! It is co-organized by Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire (CSRS), Safe Food, Fair Food project partner in West Africa. The objective...

Safe Food Fair Food blog
Kristina Rösel

ILRI postgraduates attend training in participatory risk assessment in Japan

From 3 to 12 September 2012, four graduate fellows attached to the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) participated in a course at Rakuno Gakuen University (RGU) in Ebetsu, Japan. The course focused on food safety risk assessment in informal markets in developing...

Safe Food Fair Food blog
Kristina Rösel

Annie Cook wins prize for best student poster at ISVEE – on ‘slaughterhouse zoonoses’

Congratulations to Annie Cook who won the prize for best student poster at the 13th conference of the International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics ( ISVEE ) held in Maastricht, the Netherlands on 20-24 August 2012. Annie is a PhD student at University of Edinburgh funded by the...