Tags: animal diseases

ILRI News on animal diseases

27 Mar 2019

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...

AgHealth blog

03 Jan 2019

Tezira Lore

Climate change and infectious livestock diseases: The case of Rift Valley fever and tick-borne diseases

Cattle going to the grazing field in Afar region, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). Climate change influences the occurrence and transmission of a wide range of livestock diseases through multiple pathways. Diseases caused by pathogens that spent part of their life cycle outside the...

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Publications on animal diseases

Journal Article

Published2019

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

Poster

Published2019

Antimicrobial use in smallholder livestock systems in Ethiopia

Presentation

Published2019

Antimicrobial Resistance Hub

Poster

Published2019

Antimicrobial Resistance Hub: A global research and development partnership to reduce agriculture-associated antimicrobial resistance

Journal Article

Published2019

Community, system and policy level drivers of bovine tuberculosis in smallholder periurban dairy farms in India: A qualitative enquiry

Training Material

Published2018

Field postmortem examination training module

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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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