COVID19

ILRI News on COVID19

04 Oct 2021

What COVID-19 reveals about humanity's relationship with the natural world

Amid the worldwide suffering caused by COVID-19, a silver lining emerged: that because of the slowdown in human activity, nature itself was healing. A widely circulated image on social media summed up the idea: it showed Mount Kilimanjaro’s towering snow-covered peaks, supposedly glimpsed from...

Elliot CarletonPrinceton in Africa Fellow

ILRI News

12 Sep 2021

Adrian Hill, of AstraZeneca, on the platforms and progress of global health vaccines

For those of you who, like me, are getting behind in your ‘vaccinology’ education and/or updates, here is a friendly, lucid and very current primer from Adrian Hill. Hill was recently interviewed by Brian Perry, a former research leader at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) who...

Susan MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

ILRI News

06 Sep 2021

An update on COVID-19 vaccines, supply, performance and in-house tests

By Brenda Coromina Currently, there is a COVID-19 vaccine supply problem that disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries, said Vish Nene at a town hall meeting at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in July. Only vaccines that are on the World Health Organization...