
Zoonoses & EID
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News from a research team @LivUni_IVES @ILRI studying #zoonoticdiseases & emerging diseases #EIDs in East Africa. By @ericfevre & team
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Did you catch our latest collaborative piece with University of Leeds University of Global Health Equity University of Rwanda University of Liverpool News Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences ILRI.org High prevalence of porcine #cysticercosis in slaughtered pigs, Rwanda: An abattoir survey doi.org/10.1371/journa… Led by Anselme SHYAKA and funded by Medical Research Council


Our #onehealth team is back in the field in southern Kenya, sampling humans, livestock and different components of the environment. Recent rains make for a white blanket on Kilimanjaro ILRI.org Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Also find us on Bluesky at the same handle



Excellent outcome from the innovative ZoNoH Project

Our 2022 seminal paper is being promoted by Europe PMC, so we're sharing it again here: Population genomics of Escherichia coli in livestock-keeping households across a rapidly developing urban landscape doi.org/10.1038/s41564… Nature Microbiology


Now formally in print: Salmonella carriage by geckos detected within households in Malawi #onehealth doi.org/10.1016/j.oneh… Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences ILRI.org Wellcome Sanger Institute LSTM Luanar UK Health Security Agency Lancaster University etal We're also on BlueSky - same handle


Our amazing team Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences University of Liverpool ILRI.org published a range of papers focused on disease transmission at environmental, human and other animal interfaces in 2024. Here are some of those animals in different settings... We are also on BlueSky at the same handle...



Looking back, our paper in Global Change Biology in 2020 is as relevant now: urbanization impacts biodiversity & has implications for how city dwellers co-exist with animals & their pathogens doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15… @HassellJm ILRI.org Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences We are also on Bluesky (same handle)

Output The Lancet Planetary Health of a collab proj led by the National Zoo & funded by Tides A framework for ecologically & socially informed risk reduction before & after outbreaks of wildlife-borne zoonoses sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ILRI.org Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences We're also on Bluesky-same handle


Just out: A framework for managing infectious diseases in rural areas in low- and middle-income countries in the face of climate change—East Africa as a case study doi.org/10.1371/journa… ILRI.org Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences @HassellJm Institut Pasteur, since 1887 National Zoo and others


Our newest output on #antibiotic use and access in poultry farming systems in Kenya doi.org/10.1016/j.oneh… ILRI.org Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences WSU Global Health Institute of Tropical Infectious Diseases (UNITID) Directorate of Veterinary Services #AMR #StopSuperbugs #OneHealth Funded by the The Fleming Fund



Really delighted to be part of this project 'Zoonotic Causes of Acute Febrile Illness' news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/02/20/2-7… Led by Siobhan Mor, & involving colleagues Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences University of Liverpool News LSTM Kabale University Makerere University University of Nairobi Addis Ababa University ILRI.org Funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research

Proud of our Maurice Karani for this latest paper out today: Demography of owned dogs across an East African continuum of high-low human density doi.org/10.1016/j.prev… Dog ecology relating to #rabies control ILRI.org Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences University of Liverpool News The University of Edinburgh


Our co-authored paper led by collaborator Meredith VanAcker UC Riverside National Zoo A Novel Nobecovirus in an Epomophorus wahlbergi Bat doi.org/10.3390/v17040… Non zoonotic but surveillance efforts required (Photo of Epomophorus wahlberg by Peter Vos (lnkd.in/ee4Q9Yq9)


Great to see our review piece out in Trends in Microbiology Using the microbiota to study connectivity at human–animal interfaces doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.… #onehealth ILRI.org University of Liverpool News Cirad National Zoo KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Nuffield Department of Medicine University of Copenhagen Research Dishon Muloi
