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Experts call for investment in zoonotic disease surveillance in remote rural areas to improve global health security

OHDIZoonosesApril 20, 2022

This article originally appeared on ILRI website. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to strengthen national surveillance systems to protect a globally connected world. In low-income and middle-income countries, zoonotic disease surveillance has advanced considerably in the past two …

Progress Report: Integrated One Health Research and Intervention on Schistosomiasis in South-West Nigeria

Hassan AlakaMedia, Project SCHISTOApril 4, 2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies Schistosomiasis as one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Schistosomiasis, simply put, is an acute and chronic parasitic disease caused by Schistosoma parasite. When larval stages (cercariae) of the parasite penetrate the skin via …

World Zoonoses Day: Breaking the Chain of Zoonotic Transmission

OHDIZoonosesJuly 6, 2021

Zoonoses are infectious diseases that are transmitted from vertebrate animals to humans. Zoonotic pathogens may be bacterial, viral or parasitic or may involve unconventional agents and can spread to humans through direct contact or through food, water or the environment. …

Project SCHISTO – One Health Research and Intervention on Schistosomiasis

OHDIMedia, Project SCHISTO, ZoonosesJune 12, 2021

One Health and Development Initiative is happy to announce the inception of a new project – called Project SCHISTO which aims to promote integrated One Health research and intervention on Schistosomiasis in South-West Nigeria. The first phase of this project …

FAO seeks ECTAD National Project Coordinator

Hassan AlakaOne Health OpportunitiesDecember 3, 2020

In Nigeria, transboundary animal diseases (TADs) such as PPR, FMD and ASF, including zoonoses such as HPAI, EVD, Lassa Fever and other issues including AMR pose serious risk to agriculture and food/nutrition security especially in view of their impact on …

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Tag: Zoonoses

One Health and Development Initiative (OHDI) Articles.

Experts call for investment in zoonotic disease surveillance in remote rural areas to improve global health security

Progress Report: Integrated One Health Research and Intervention on Schistosomiasis in South-West Nigeria

World Zoonoses Day: Breaking the Chain of Zoonotic Transmission

Project SCHISTO – One Health Research and Intervention on Schistosomiasis

FAO seeks ECTAD National Project Coordinator

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