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ILRI News on bird flu

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Could bird flu be the next global pandemic?

As the world’s attention is fixed on COVID-19, an avian influenza (bird flu) outbreak has spread across multiple continents in recent weeks. At least 75% of new human diseases emerge from animals. Animal disease experts have warned that the escalating cases of bird flu pose a threat to public...

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Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do

Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit: WorldFish/Felix Clay/Duckrabbit). In a new book chapter (Ch. 15, Technologies for agricultural transformation: Animal health ), Delia Grace , a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert at the...

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Scottish gene-edited chickens produced to help stop bird flu

Gallo, 1977, by Aldemir Martins (via Wikiart). ‘Humans don’t usually get the flu directly from animals, but human outbreaks of bird and swine flu can and do happen. In fact, scientists are so concerned that the next great pandemic will arise from a deadly strain of wild bird influenza that they’ve...