Tags: zoonotic diseases

ILRI News on zoonotic diseases

ILRI News
Susan MacMillan

Viral flash points? Poor urban settlements are highly vulnerable to the risk of the new coronavirus

Scene in Nairobi’s low-income Kibera settlement (photo credit: David Orgel/Flickr). A new guest blog article published yesterday (27 Feb 2020) on the website of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) argues that: Weak infrastructure would leave urban settlements in low-...

ILRI News
Ekta Patel

New Tick Cell Biobank Outpost at ILRI to support research in Africa on ticks and tick-borne diseases

Ticks in ILRI’s tick laboratory (photo credit: ILRI/David White). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has been selected as Africa’s Outpost for tick cell lines to serve as a resource for global arthropod research in the continent. ILRI’s Tick Unit has been selected as Africa’s...

ILRI Asia blog
Chi Nguyen

SafePORK project offers lessons on improving food safety in developing country for University of Sydney students

Recently, three students from Sydney School of Veterinary Science, the University of Sydney, participated in a three-week internship (2–21 December 2019) at the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) in Vietnam to learn about food safety risks and related communication issues in a...

More news

Publications on zoonotic diseases

more publications

ILRI Projects on zoonotic diseases

Active

Safer indigenous pork and healthier ethnic minorities in Vietnam by better management of parasitic foodborne diseases

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization listed the top 10 foodborne parasites of global concern in humans, with cysticercosis (caused by Taenia solium ) ranked the highest and trichinellosis (caused by Trichinella spiralis ) seventh. Human...

Active

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...

More projects