Implications of African swine fever virus (ASFV) for food security in Africa are significant. ASFV remains an imposing and enormous risk to animal health and food security globally. The key challenges to developing a safe ...
Human African Trypanosomosis (HAT) or sleeping sickness affects people and animals [Animal African Trypanosomosis (AAT) or Nagana] and occurs in 37 sub-Saharan countries covering more than 9 million km2. The infection ...
Anthrax is a peracute, acute or subacute, highly contagious disease of domestic and wild animals and humans, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Between outbreaks, the anthrax bacterium survives in the environment ...
Avian influenza (AI) belongs to a highly mutable, reportable group of Type A influenza viruses, some of which are zoonotic. The paper highlights gaps in relation to vaccine development and sustainable field implementation ...
Bluetongue (BT) is an infectious, non-contagious, vector-borne viral epizootic disease that affects domestic and wild ruminants. For target countries of the Livestock Vaccine Innovation Fund (LVIF), the economic and socio ...
Bovine Anaplasmosis (BA) is caused by Anaplasma marginale parasite. BA affects cattle and water buffalo in Asia. Several wild ungulate species are also affected and play an important role in the disease epidemiology. ...
Bovine babesiosis is a tick-borne disease predominantly observed in adult cattle. Without treatment, mortality rates are very high (30% for Babesia bigemina, 70-80% for B. bovis). Tick control, together with drug treatment, ...
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a chronic bacterial disease of animals and humans caused by Mycobacterium bovis. In many countries it is a major infectious disease of cattle, other domesticated animals, and certain wildlife ...
Brucellosis is mainly transmitted to humans from cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and camels through direct contact with blood, placenta, foetuses or uterine secretions, or through consumption of contaminated raw animal products. ...
Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) affects domesticated pigs and wild boars with variable symptoms according to the virus strain, exposure history and host genetics. CSFV is reported in Europe, Central and South America, ...
Vaccines for the prevention of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) are very useful but not easily available. Different countries adopt different control measures. For example, Tanzania and Uganda allow treatment, ...
The monograph focuses on T. parva and ECF which cause tropical theileriosis. East coast fever (ECF) is considered to be the most economically devastating tick-borne disease of cattle in Africa due to mortality, morbidity ...
The paper provides detailed information on the incidence, prevalence, and prevention of cystic echinococcosis (CE) also called hydatidosis or hydatid disease, a zoonotic disease caused by various species of cestode parasites. ...
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is the most contagious disease of mammals and causes severe economic losses in susceptible cloven-hoofed animals. Although a disease of low mortality, the global impact of FMD is colossal due ...
Heartwater or cowdriosis is specific to cattle, sheep, goats and some wild ruminants, and is prevalent in much of Africa and the Caribbean. Heartwater is considered by some groups as the second most economically important ...
Most of the time vaccines for hemorrhagic septicemia (HS) do not match circulating strains of the virus, due to limited or lack of diagnostic and typing capacity, or do not include key components like leukotoxins. Cattle ...
New interest in lumpy skin disease (LSD) is due to the risk the disease is posing for Europe. Traditionally restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, it has spread to most African countries, the Middle East and some European ...
Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is considered the most significant cause of poultry losses globally, with greatest economic impact in terms of lost livestock in South Asia and Viet Nam (2006-2009). Vaccination remains an ...
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute contagious viral disease of sheep and goats with a few reports of disease outbreak in camels. The standard disease control measures of : quarantine, movement control, sanitary ...
Cysticercosis is a disease of farmed and wild animals which is caused by the larval stages (metacestodes) of cestodes of the family Taeniidae (tapeworms), the adult stages of which occur in the intestine of humans, dogs ...