Zebra-scented cattle will be roaming East Africa in increasing numbers over the next three years thanks to a grant to perfect a technology that keeps tsetse flies away. Researchers have developed repellent collars containing the synthetic equivalents of the odours of animals that tsetse flies tend to avoid — such as zebra. “We decided to … Continue reading
Category Archives: Animal Diseases
Animal Diseases / Asia / Livestock / Pigs / Southeast Asia / Vietnam
Blue ear of pigs spreading in Vietnam
With Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), or blue ear disease, spreading across Vietnam, large numbers of pig farmers are facing financial difficulty. Pork shortages due to the culling of pigs, or deaths from the disease, combined with restrictions in the movement of animals and public concern over the safety of pork products have seen … Continue reading
Study published in Science criticizes swine flu follow-up
‘The message from our paper is not an inevitable disaster around the corner, but the need for continued vigilance.’–Malik Peiris Continue reading
Africa / Animal Diseases / Disease Control / East Africa / ECF / Tanzania / Vaccines
East Coast fever vaccine registered in Tanzania
In May, an East Coast fever (ECF) vaccine was registered by GALVmed in Tanzania. ECF is a tick transmitted disease which kills a million cattle every year and devastates the livelihood of those who depend on livestock for survival. Registration of the ECF vaccine is central to safety and efficacy and to securing the sustainability … Continue reading
Agriculture / Animal Diseases / Climate Change / Disease Control / East Africa / Environment / Kenya
SEI Africa takes part in three million Euro EU project in eastern Africa
“The project will focus on building a disease risk mapping system for three water-related high-impact vector-borne diseases (malaria, Rift Valley fever and schistosomiasis) in Africa, accounting for environmental/climatic trends to predict future risk.” The newly established SEI Africa Centre has been successful in taking part in a bid led by Trinity College Dublin for a … Continue reading
Do livestock vaccines help reduce global hunger and poverty?
Brian Perry, a former senior scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya, now a visiting professor of tropical veterinary medicine at the University of Oxford, in the latest issue of a newsletter produced jointly by Oxford, the Jenner Institute and the International Animal Health Institute, all in the United Kingdom, writes: … Continue reading
Poor livestock disease monitoring confines Kenyan herders to poverty
Livestock diseases have put Kenya under siege. This sorry state of affairs is a creation of a combination of factors that have complicated animal and disease surveillance in “an agricultural country” where herders, pastoralists, and ranches remain vulnerable, say experts. Read more … (Business Daily) Continue reading
Gambia gets vaccine support for neglected animal disease project
The Gambia has got support of vaccine for animal diseases that are often neglected. This was disclosed to TODAY Newspaper by the director of Animal Health and Production Service at Abuko, Dr. Kebba Daffeh while speaking with our reporter in an interview. According to Dr. Daffeh, The Gambia is one of the 14 countries that … Continue reading
Africa / Animal Diseases / Capacity Strengthening / Disease Control / East Africa / Emerging Diseases / Kenya / Livestock / Wildlife / Zoonotic Diseases
Kenya Wildlife Service hosts training on wildlife capture and sampling techniques for disease surveillance
Emerging and re-emerging diseases some of them pandemic in proportions, pose great threat to biodiversity conservation, public health and livestock industry. The African Union’s Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) and other international agencies such as Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has started training on wildlife capture and sampling techniques for disease surveillance in collaboration … Continue reading
Africa / Animal Diseases / East Africa / Livestock / Uganda
Animal diseases on the rise in Uganda: Audit exposes the vices
Delays to report the outbreak of livestock diseases has contributed to increased disease prevalence countrywide. The effects of these range from loss of household income, increase of prices of animals and animal products, loss of revenue from exports and total misery. A report on the prevention and control of livestock health, and entomology (study of … Continue reading
ILRI Clippings 