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ILRI News on animal diseases

24 May 2019

Development policy and practice – a case study in disruptive innovations

By Eva Ohlsson and Boleslaw Stawicki A disease that was supposed to have been preventable by vaccine recently reemerged as a major killer of chicks in Kenya, seriously damaging the livelihoods of countless smallholder farmers and driving thousands of them out of the poultry business altogether. It...

AgHealth blog

27 Mar 2019

Tezira Lore

New study examines drivers of bovine tuberculosis in smallholder peri-urban dairy farms in India

Farmer herds his three bulls in Nikhekhu Village, Dimapur, Nagaland, India (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Rapid urbanization in India has led to expansion of peri-urban fringes, where intensive, industry-style livestock rearing has led to emerging vulnerabilities at the human-animal-environment...

ILRI Asia blog

10 Jan 2019

Chi Nguyen

ILRI and German partners conduct hands-on meat inspection training to improve pork safety in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

Fifty researchers from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia benefited from meat inspection training (44) and laboratory diagnosis (6) to tackle parasitic pork borne diseases by the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) and German partners from the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and...

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Publications on animal diseases

Brief

Published2019

A market scoping study for porcine cysticercosis vaccine calls for a one-health approach to sustain the control of the disease in Uganda

Poster

Published2018

Eradication of human African trypanosomiasis? Don't forget the pigs!

Journal Article

Published2019

Seroprevalence of hemorrhagic septicemia in dairy cows in Assam, India

Journal Article

Published2019

Molecular detection and phylogenetic analysis of Peste des petits ruminants virus circulating in small ruminants in eastern Amhara region, Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2019

Similar levels of diversity in the gene encoding the p67 sporozoite surface protein of Theileria parva are observed in blood samples from buﬀalo and cattle naturally infected from buﬀalo

Journal Article

Published2019

A multiplex fluorescence microsphere immunoassay for increased understanding of Rift Valley fever immune responses in ruminants in Kenya

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ILRI Projects on animal diseases

Feb 2017Jan 2019

Developing optimal vaccination strategies for Rift Valley fever in East Africa

Rift Valley fever is a mosquito-borne viral zoonotic disease that affects sheep, goats, cattle and camels causing devastating losses, especially among pastoral communities that rely on livestock for their livelihoods. The disease occurs in explosive outbreaks following periods of above-normal and...

Jan 2016Dec 2019

Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program

FTF-MLTS strives to reduce the productivity gaps and expand the volume and value of ruminant livestock produced and marketed by 61,000 households in 31 FTF focus communes in Sikasso, Mopti and Timbuktu. To achieve this, FTF-MLTS is promoting the wide-scale dissemination of productivity enhancing...

Jun 2015May 2019

Linking biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services in the Serengeti-Mara region, East Africa: Drivers of change, causalities and sustainable management strategies (AfricanBioServices)

Climate change Climate change represents a major threat to global biodiversity and in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, it is apparent as increased variability and irregularity of rainfall. Human population growth Africa harbours the fastest growing human population in the world and the pressure on...

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