Tags: zoonotic diseases

ILRI News on zoonotic diseases

06 Jul 2019

Celebrating World Zoonoses Day with a focus on ILRI’s research on zoonotic diseases

Taking sheep for disease testing in Bako, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Barbara Wieland). World Zoonoses Day is marked annually on 6 July to commemorate the day in 1885 when Louis Pasteur successfully administered the first vaccine against a zoonotic disease when he treated a young boy who had been...

ILRI Asia blog

05 Jul 2019

Chi Nguyen

ILRI research on food safety and One Health featured at the third Global ODA Forum for Sustainable Agricultural Development

Findings from food safety, zoonoses and One Health research by scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) and partners were presented at the Third Global ODA Forum for Sustainable Agricultural Development held 13-15 May 2019 in Seoul, South Korea. On the second day of...

AgHealth blog

21 Jun 2019

Tezira Lore

New study finds that urban wildlife may be a significant vector for antimicrobial resistant bacteria

Researchers entering sampling data (photo credit: Zoonoses and Emerging Diseases). In the cities of developing nations, where unregulated antibiotic use is common and livestock jostle with people amid often unsanitary conditions, scientists have found a potentially troubling vector for the...

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Publications on zoonotic diseases

Presentation

Published2019

Food safety solutions

Presentation

Published2019

Seroprevalence of trichinellosis and cysticercosis infections of pigs correlated to human health in Southern Laos PDR

Journal Article

Published2019

Control of Taenia solium: A case for public and private sector investment

Journal Article

Published2019

Deterministic processes structure bacterial genetic communities across an urban landscape

Brochure

Published2019

Animal and human health program

Journal Article

Published2019

A multiplex fluorescence microsphere immunoassay for increased understanding of Rift Valley fever immune responses in ruminants in Kenya

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ILRI Projects on zoonotic diseases

Aug 2015Dec 2019

Zoonoses in livestock in Kenya

Continuing changes to livestock production systems in Kenya and elsewhere to satisfy increased demand for livestock products affect the risk of zoonoses and other infectious diseases. The most important changes are the commercialisation and intensification of what was previously subsistence farming...

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...

Jul 2010Dec 2011

A systematic review of zoonoses transmission and livestock-wildlife interactions

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