The Guardian – New research from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) found that zoonoses and diseases recently emerged from animals (swine flu, bird flu, Sars) make up a quarter of infectious diseases in developing countries, co…
Tristan McConnell reports in the GlobalPost that ‘In modern Africa, it can be hard to tell where the city ends and the countryside begins. Kenyans flocking to the city in ever-greater numbers bring their cows and crops, while the fast-growing cities …
A CNN report this week on ‘The looming zoonotic danger’ makes use of some astounding figures developed by veterinary epidemiologist Delia Grace and her team at ILRI, based in Kenya. ‘We’ve seen an unprecedented rise in infectious diseases in re…
The One Health approach for the prevention and control of zoonotic diseases (diseases transmitted between animals and humans) is being institutionalized in Kenya.
