Tags: animal health

ILRI News on animal health

14 Sep 2020

More on why outright banning of ‘wet markets’ (while ‘giving virologists the heebie-jeebies’) won’t work

Reposted from ILRI News, written by Susan MacMillan Liam Taylor, a reporter for The Economist , recently interviewed Uganda-based food safety experts at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and at Uganda’s premiere university, Makerere, in development of an article about whether...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

ILRI clippings

10 Sep 2020

The geometry of disease: A longitudinal calf cohort study in Kenya has yielded a unique database and biorepository

Fun with Lines and Curves by Elsie C. Ellison, 1972 (binding illustration). The IDEAL project, first attempt to study the complete pathogen landscape of any species, has generated a unique dataset and biorepository for researchers of infectious diseases of cattle in East Africa. ‘The Infectious...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

ILRI News

03 Sep 2020

The world needs to learn how to live with COVID-19, says UK public health expert David Heymann

A 3-D model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, developed by ILRI digital communications specialist Annabel Slater. The world will need to learn to live with COVID-19 with or without a vaccine for the disease because it is likely to become endemic, says David Heymann , professor of infectious disease...

David AronsonSenior Communications Advisor

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Publications on animal health

Journal Article

Published2020

Africa’s nomadic pastoralists and their animals are an invisible frontier in pandemic surveillance

Journal Article

Published2020

Contagious bovine and caprine pleuropneumonia: A research community’s recommendations for the development of better vaccines

Journal Article

Published2020

Bovine colostrum before or after formula feeding improves systemic immune protection and gut function in newborn preterm pigs

Journal Article

Published2020

Diet modulates the high sensitivity to systemic infection in newborn preterm pigs

Presentation

Published2020

An update on the epidemiology of African swine fever in Africa

Poster

Published2020

Gender responsive community conversations to transform animal health management

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ILRI Projects on animal health

Jan 2020Dec 2023

Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-Zim)

Livestock provides income and employment to farmers, agricultural service providers and others involved in the value chain. Zimbabwe’s livestock production system is characterized by small-scale subsistence farming. Despite the importance of livestock to rural livelihoods, productivity remains low...

Mar 2019Apr 2032

One Health Units for Humans, Environment, Animals and Livelihoods (HEAL)

The project brings together professionals in human and animal health and the environment to achieve better access to human and veterinary health services and sustainable natural resources management. To implement One Health, the project works with communities, public and private service providers...

Mar 2019Jun 2022

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

Testing innovative approaches to vaccine delivery This project will test two innovative approaches for vaccine delivery — one gender accommodative and one gender transformative — by adapting CARE’s Gender Transformative Farmer Field and Business School approach to facilitating women’s sustained...

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