Diseases from animals hit over 2 billion people a year – Reuters – John McDermott, director of the CGIAR research program on agriculture for nutrition and health led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said that in …
A new study maps hotspots of human-animal infectious diseases and emerging disease outbreaks. The maps reveal animal-borne disease as a heavy burden for one billion of world’s poor and new evidence on zoonotic emerging disease hotspots in the United …
Two veterinary epidemiologists working at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), John McDermott and Delia Grace, recently published a fascinating look at the state of ‘livestock plagues’ that can, and regularly are, transmitted to h…
This brief photofilm features small-scale butchers and consumers interviewed in Nairobi, with a commentary by Delia Grace—a veterinary epidemiolgoist at ILRI who also leads the A4NH component on ‘Agriculture-Associated Diseases’—…
