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Animal-to-human diseases: From panic to planning–new recommendations for...
Map by ILRI, published in an ILRI report to the UK Department for International Development (DFID): Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots, 2012. The UK’s Institute for Development Studies...
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Boosting pig production among India’s poor: Tata-ILRI research partnership...
A pig farmer in Nagaland, India. A Tata-ILRI partnership is helping Indian farmers beat classical swine fever to boost pig production (photo credit: ILRI/Ram Deka). A program that is supporting rural...
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The spatial ecology of pigs: Where free-range doesn’t come free
A report on the economic as well as health risks of keeping free-range pigs in western Kenya has been published by scientists in the animal health laboratories at ILRI’s Nairobi, Kenya, campus; here,...
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Alliance meeting this week to battle global ‘goat plague’
The PPR virus, commonly known as goat plague, swept across southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya in 2008; Mohammed Noor lost 20 goats in the just one week and wondered how he would provide for his...
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New advances in the battle against a major disease threat to cattle and...
An 8-month old cloned Boran calf named Tumaini (meaning ‘hope’ in Kiswahili), on the left, is part of a long-term ILRI research project to develop cattle for Africa that are genetically resistant to...
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Experts meet to share tactics in fight against ‘goat plague’: Filmed highlights
Watch this short (3:50 minutes) film on the views of participants at a recent meeting to coordinate research strategies for a disease of small ruminants known as peste des petits ruminants, or PPR....
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Study finds Vietnam has low awareness of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease...
A three-year study by ILRI and partners shows that farmers in Vietnam have low awareness of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease that infects animals (including pigs) and humans (photo credit:...
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Scissors and crazy glue: Lorne Babiuk, award-winning vaccine evangelist,...
Director of ILRI’s vaccine development program Vish Nene (left) with Canadian vaccinologist and ILRI board member Lorne Babiuk (right) at morning tea with ILRI staff (photo credit: ILRI/Susan...
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ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on global health and food security: Why developing-country...
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) gave a keynote presentation this morning (17 Oct 2013) at the opening of the Global Animal Health Conference,...
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World’s largest agricultural research partnership, serving 1 billion poor,...
Tanzanian Maasai help vaccinate their calves against lethal East Coast fever (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). CGIAR has doubled its funding in the last five years, from $500 million (in 2008) to $1...
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