The Lancet has launched a new three-part series on zoonotic diseases (diseases that are transmissible between animals and people). “Zoonoses – pathogenic organisms such as bacteria or viruses which we share with animals – cause more than 60% of …
Scientists conducting research in the area of pathogen discovery, especially virus discovery met for a 4 day workshop on 5-8 Nov 2012. Held at ILRI, Nairobi, the aim of the workshop was to enable ILRI to make informed decisions about which technologies…
Zoonoses: The lethal gifts of livestock. See this ‘slidecast’, which includes an audio file of a ‘livestock live talk’ given by veterinary epidemiologist Delia Grace at ILRI’s Nairobi headquarters on 31 Oct 2012. The following remarks are a t…
Peter Greste, a journalist with Al Jazeera, recently accompanied veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert Delia Grace to the slums of Nairobi, to take a first-hand look at ‘urban farming’, livestock farming in particular. Grace works for IL…
The following remarks are a transcript of the second part of a presentation made on 31 Oct 2012 by Delia Grace, who leads ILRI’s research on food safety in informal markets in developing countries and on ‘zoonoses’—diseases shared by animals…
