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ILRI News on zoonotic diseases

03 Jun 2020

COVID-19 gives the ‘One Health’ approach to tackling epidemics ‘global celebrity status’. Again.

David Nabarro (left, photo credit: DFID and Commonwealth Office) and Jimmy Smith (photo credit: ILRI/AlexandraDeAthayde). The article below was first published on the 4SD website: One Health: Taking a horizontal approach to tackling pandemics 2 Jun 2020. I am delighted to spotlight this piece about...

Susan MacMillanTeam Leader, Communications, Awareness and Advocacy

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 zoonotic diseases

Journal Article

Published2020

Epidemiology of Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis: A systematic review of the distribution in East, Southeast and South Asia

Presentation

Published2020

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

Conference Paper

Published2020

Urban informal markets in Africa: Challenges of crisis

Journal Article

Published2020

Risk factors for acute human brucellosis in Ijara, north-eastern Kenya

Journal Article

Published2020

Evaluation of a COVID-19 IgM and IgG rapid test; an efficient tool for assessment of past exposure to SARS-CoV-2

Journal Article

Published2020

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) seropositive camel handlers in Kenya

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ILRI Projects on zoonotic diseases

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...

Jan 2019Dec 2023

Boosting Uganda’s investment in livestock development

In Uganda, around 70% of all households keep at least one kind of livestock (including poultry). Livestock production is primarily a family business, but only a fraction of the food produced is used for home consumption. Most of it is sold at local markets, which are mainly informal markets...