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Dear colleagues and partners, April 2024 marks my first full year as director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and senior director of CGIAR livestock-based systems. Three months into my tenure, I was also appointed interim managing director CGIAR’s Resilient Agrifood Systems (RAFS). It has been a very exciting, challenging yet humbling journey. I […]
The worldwide effort to combat Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) is about to reach a defining moment with the upcoming Inter-Regional Economic Community Meeting. The event, organized by AU-IBAR and the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) will take place in Rabat, Morocco, from April 21st to 24th, 2024, with the objective of coordinating and mainstreaming eradication […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last night released a detailed analysis of H5N1 avian flu samples taken from a patient in Texas who was exposed to sick cows, which suggests that the infection might involve the eyes but perhaps not the upper respiratory tract. Also, when CDC scientists compared the human H5N1 […]
The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) yesterday announced the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) at a dairy cattle farm in Cassia County, bringing the number of affected states to four and adding more evidence the virus may be spreading cow-to-cow. Earlier this week, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection […]
