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ILRI News on animal health

02 Jun 2020

Expanding capacity for participatory disease surveillance in Uganda

Uganda field work, Bugiri, promotional piling to assess mobility and mortality (photo credit: ILRI) This article has been written by Ekta Patel and edited by Paul Karaimu In an effort to support animal disease surveillance in Uganda, Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (VSF) Germany in collaboration with...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

ILRI News

30 May 2020

A bridge not too far: To prevent pandemics, close the human and animal health divide

Stone relief of a man holding an ibex, 713–706 BC, from Dur Sharrukin, the Palace of Assyrian King Sargon II, at Khorsabad, in present-day northern Iraq (photo credit: Louvre Museum). Written by Lynne Peeples Nadia began coughing on March 27. The 4-year-old Malayan tiger’s keepers at the Bronx Zoo...

Susan MacMillanTeam Leader, Communications, Awareness and Advocacy

ILRI News

28 May 2020

Diagnostic tests for COVID-19: How useful are they?

Women working in the advanced animal health laboratories of ILRI, in Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/David White). Last week, in one of a series of weekly townhalls held by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), an ILRI scientist updated ILRI staff and partners on the diagnostic...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

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Publications on animal health

Brief

Published2020

Food safety performance in key pork value chains in Vietnam

Presentation

Published2020

Lots of cows on the road. The way from postdoc to docent in East Africa and India

Report

Published2020

Consumer perception of milk safety in Kenya

Journal Article

Published2020

A review of the impact of mycotoxins on dairy cattle health: Challenges for food safety and dairy production in sub-Saharan Africa

Report

Published2020

Better enforcement of standards for safer trade in livestock and livestock products across the Red Sea: Feasibility study for a joint Horn of Africa-Arabian Peninsula initiative

Journal Article

Published2020

Zoonotic pathogens in urban animals: Enough research to protect the health of the urban population?

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ILRI Projects on animal health

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...

Oct 2017Dec 2021

One Health regional network for the Horn of Africa

The project will strengthen the ability of organizations to undertake research through a five-step process: Undertake research capability assessments of partner institutions in the Horn of Africa to assess the current and target research capabilities, propose plans to reach the target, implement...

Sep 2019Aug 2022

Co-infection with Rift Valley fever virus, Brucella spp. and Coxiella burnetii in humans and animals in Kenya: Disease burden and ecological factors

Rift Valley fever, brucellosis and Q fever cause serious illnesses in humans and are associated with extensive socio-economic losses in livestock. These diseases are prevalent in pastoral areas of Kenya and are among the country’s top 10 priority zoonoses. In people, the diseases cause intermittent...

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