Tags: epidemiology

ILRI News on epidemiology

08 Mar 2020

What keeps Bill Gates up at night? A (highly prescient) 2015 article spells out our COVID-19 challenges today

Bill Gates (photo credit: Marcos Fuentes via Flickr). What keeps Bill Gates up at night? It’s not child mortality. Not malaria. Not polio. All of which his foundation battles every day. It’s not war, which most of the world tends to worry about. It’s what Gates thinks is the most predictable threat...

ILRI News

02 Mar 2020

David Aronson

We need a new approach, or another coronavirus is inevitable

‘Until we start thinking of human and animal health as linked, another coronavirus is inevitable’, warns Jimmy Smith , the International Livestock Research Institute’s (ILRI) director general in an op-ed published 26 February in the Independent (paywalled, registration required). ‘The coronavirus (...

ILRI News

14 Jan 2020

Ekta Patel

African swine fever ten years on: the lessons learned and the way forward

A pig in northwest Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Hanh Le). African swine fever is a highly contagious viral disease of domestic and wild pigs that has caused serious economic and production losses in Asia, where China has seen direct economic losses of an estimated USD141 billion. This transboundary...

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Publications on epidemiology

Extension Material

Published2019

How to prevent disease in cattle

Journal Article

Published2020

Status and gaps of research on respiratory disease pathogens of swine in Africa

Journal Article

Published2020

Importance of livestock diseases identified using participatory epidemiology in the highlands of Ethiopia

Journal Article

Published2019

Status and epidemiology of maize lethal necrotic disease in northern Tanzania

Thesis

Published2019

Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance at the livestock-human interface in an urban environment: a One Health approach

Journal Article

Published2019

Rift Valley fever virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, and African swine fever virus: Three transboundary, vector-borne, veterinary biothreats with diverse surveillance and response capacity needs

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ILRI Projects on epidemiology

Jun 2017May 2020

Identifying anthrax hotspots and associated ecological factors in Kenya

In Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa, outbreaks of anthrax occur in certain ecological regions, primarily triggered by weather extremes. Outbreaks of this neglected disease result in significant morbidity and mortality in humans, livestock and wildlife. The overall goal of this project is to identify...

Jun 2019May 2022

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

The global strategy for the control and eradication of peste des petits ruminants has been endorsed by more than 200 countries with the vision of a world free of the disease by 2030. This project supports ongoing global control and eradication efforts led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...