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Mitigation of the impacts of Rift Valley fever through targeted vaccination...
The Rift Valley fever virus is a mosquito-borne pathogen that causes explosive outbreaks of severe human and livestock disease in Africa and Arabian Peninsula. The rapid evolution of outbreaks of Rift...
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Sustainable intensification?: Implications for the emergence of diseases
Currently new diseases are emerging at the rate of one every four months and three out of four of these diseases jump species from other animals. Many of these diseases are associated with agriculture....
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Healthy lives: Tackling food-borne diseases and zoonoses
Agriculture imposes large burdens on human health. Three million deaths a year and one-quarter of all deaths from infection are agriculture-associated, and almost all of these occur in developing...
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ILRI scientist Delia Grace receives the Trevor Blackburn Award for...
Delia Grace, veterinary epidemiologist at the International Livestock Research Institute (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). We are pleased to congratulate Delia Grace on being announced as the...
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Slaughterhouse number 5 – examining zoonotic diseases in western Kenya
Annie Cook is a graduate fellow at the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya. In this blogpost she describes a day in the life of her PhD project. “I am a veterinary epidemiologist which...
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Ebola: Three unpalatable truths
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings: The district of Kailahun, in eastern Sierra Leone, bordering Guinea, is home to this 88-bed largest Ebola treatment and isolation centre set up by Médecins Sans...
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ILRI research on animal health and food safety featured at the 6th All Africa...
ILRI scientist Silvia Alonso presents at the 6th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture held at Nairobi, Kenya on 27-30 October 2014 (photo credit: ILRI/Tezira Lore). Scientists from the...
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High-profile ILRI conference discusses the future of livestock research for...
The contribution of livestock to human and animal health was among the several topics discussed at a high-profile conference organized by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis...
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Informing national Rift Valley fever control plans: An ILRI impact narrative
Rift Valley fever, a viral disease that is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, causes abortion and stillbirth in livestock and can cause serious conditions such as haemorrhagic fever...
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ILRI scientists contribute to new FAO book on the International Year of...
A boy returns home with his family herd at dusk in Lhate Village, Chokwe, Mozambique. Livestock farming offers unique features to support local livelihoods and economies in developing countries (photo...
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CTA publication highlights ILRI’s research on One Health for zoonoses control
Maasai father and son tend to their cattle in their paddock in Kitengela, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Zoonoses account for 60% of human diseases, but traditional divisions between human,...
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Despite contamination concerns, Africa must embrace ‘wet markets’ as key to...
Originally posted on ILRI news: At the Xipamamime traditional market, in Maputo, trader Augusta Thomas sells chickens (photo credit: ILRI/Mann). A new compilation of 25 studies in Africa finds that...
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Livestock and healthy lives: Past trends and future predictions
This poster, prepared for the ILRI@40 series of events, highlights past trends and future predictions of emerging zoonotic infectious diseases using a conceptual framework of the causal links between...
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New book presents research findings on food safety in Africa’s traditional...
Animal products – meat, milk, eggs and fish – are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa. However, these nutritious food products are also the most risky....
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ILRI joint appointee scientist reflects on John Dillon Fellowship experience
Hung Nguyen-Viet, researcher at the Center for Public Health and Ecosystem Research (CENPHER) and joint appointee of the International Livestock Research Institute (photo credit: CENPHER/Hung...
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#IWD2015: Why do we need a gender perspective in research to improve food...
A woman milks one of her goats in Ségou District, Mali (photo credit: ILRI/Valentin Bognan Koné). Almost two-thirds of the world’s 925 million poor livestock keepers are rural women, and women often...
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ILRI presents at inaugural regional conference on zoonotic diseases in...
Farming scene in the highlands of Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). Zoonotic diseases, or zoonoses, are diseases that can be passed from animals to people. Nearly two-thirds of emerging...
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IFPRI 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report features chapter on food safety...
A local pork vendor at the wet market sells her meat to two local women, Hung Yen province, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Nguyen Ngoc Huyen). The 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report launched last week...
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First global map of the rising use of antimicrobial drugs in farm animals...
Originally posted on ILRI news: A woman in Uganda lets her chickens out to forage during the day (photo on Flickr by Jennifer Wilmore/Bread for the World). This news article was developed by Tim...
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New ILRI report reviews the use of a Rift Valley fever decision support tool...
Orma Boran cattle crossing a river in Kenya. Rift Valley fever can infect both cattle and people (photo credit: ILRI /Rosemary Dolan). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has...
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