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ILRI News on ECF

28 Apr 2022

Genetics breakthrough in disease-resistant native East African cattle breed—The Economist

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) veterinary scientists led by Phil Toye and James Prendergast of the Roslin Institute were featured in The Economist for the serendipitous discovery of a gene that could make African cattle more resistant to East Coast Fever. Reproduced here is the...

Brenda CorominaPrinceton in Africa Fellow: Assistant Writer/Editor

ILRI News

15 Mar 2022

Experts discuss the impact of climate change on tick-borne pathogens in western, central and eastern Africa

Africa is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, impacting the emergence, re-emergence and spread of vector-borne diseases. The epidemiology of tick-borne diseases in tropical Africa is complex, often characterized by co-infection of livestock and wildlife with multiple tick-borne...

Tezira LoreCommunication Specialist

ILRI News

08 Feb 2022

James Magondu

The Institute for International Livestock Research (ILRI) is sad to report the death the week before last of James Magondu, a long-term staff member of ILRI and its predecessor, the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), who retired from ILRI in 2012. As Julius Osaso,...

Susan MacMillanEmeritus Fellow(International Livestock Research Institute)
Chris HinsonFormer ILRAD Laboratory Manager(Retired)
Julius OsasoDiagnostic Platform Manager(BecA-ILRI Hub)

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Publications on ECF

Brief

Published2021

Tackling the key cattle disease East Coast fever: An overview of CGIAR research in one of Africa’s most important livestock diseases

Brief

Published2021

Developing a subunit vaccine for East Coast fever: A potential alternative solution to tackling cattle’s most damaging disease in Africa

News Item

Published2022

Genetic breakthrough offers novel approach to controlling Africa’s East Coast fever, which kills a million cattle a year: A serendipitous discovery could improve the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in Africa

Journal Article

Published2022

A locus conferring tolerance to Theileria infection in African cattle

Brief

Published2021

A genetic approach to tackling East Coast fever

Report

Published2021

Training, mentoring, coaching and initiation into commercial East Coast fever immunization in Kilimanjaro and Tanga regions

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ILRI Projects on ECF

Aug 2020Aug 2025

Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab

The Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab will develop local capacity in Kenya to carry out laboratory-based animal health research to improve East Coast fever vaccines and diagnostics and conduct social and economic evaluations of the effects of animal health interventions on human...