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Prevent Disease Outbreak among your Animals with these Biosecurity Measures

In the past few weeks, the media has been agog about the news of novel and existing disease outbreaks in humans and animals both globally, nationally and locally. Notable among these include the globally-spreading Coronavirus, the endemic Lassa Fever in …

New Updates on the ongoing LASSA FEVER outbreak in Nigeria

Since the beginning of the year, news reports have confirmed that Lassa Fever has been on the rampage yet again in Nigeria. According to the Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC), as of the 24th of January 2020, 195 confirmed …

CORONAVIRUS – What you need to know about this new public health threat

On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. By 7th January, a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was identified as the causative virus by Chinese authorities. Since then till …

Invitation to Seminar on Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotics are essential resources for human and animal health today. However, with increasing abuse and misuse by both human and animal health practitioners, antibiotics resistance is occurring and has now become one of the biggest problems facing humanity and life …

Yes, you can help Animals in your own little way. Here’s how!

In a lot of countries and communities around the world, animals are still under-appreciated. A lot of people still treat animals with indifference or a complete lack of awareness, empathy and concern for their wellbeing. It is important to understand …

Introducing One Health and Development Initiative (OHDI)

Dear ALL, it is with great pleasure that we announce the rebranding and transitioning of “MyAnimal,MyHealth” from just a Blog to a full-fledged and registered nonprofit organization called ONE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (OHDI). This is a major milestone and …

Project #FishAndOceans

Project #FishAndOceans is an agriculture and journalism project that investigated on ocean resource conservation, and the health and economic effects of Nigeria’s over-reliance on fish importation. The project was funded and supported by the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network and was implemented …

Project #AbattoirNigeria

Project #AbattoirNigeria was a nationwide public health advocacy and media project that investigated, reported, and engaged abattoir workers and the Nigerian public on the challenging issues of unhealthy abattoirs, poor meat hygiene, and eating infected meat. It was postulated that …

Eat Fish? How to recognize good or bad Fish at the market

Eat Fish? Here’s how to recognize good or bad fish at the market For many Nigerians, fish is a regular delicacy in our meals. It is considered a much healthier source of protein compared to red meat products like beef, …

Are you or your animal resistant to Antibiotics?

Have you ever used an antibiotic drug for some infection and it worked perfectly…. Then you used the same drug for the same or another infection at a later time, and realized that the drug didn’t work as before? Or …

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