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Delia Grace Celebrates 108th Birthday At St. Patrick's Cathedral

Delia Grace Celebrates 108th Birthday At St. Patrick’s Cathedral

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A special birthday celebration was held Sunday in Manhattan for a woman turning 108 years old. Delia Grace shared advice for a long life outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral. READ MORE: Subway Service Restored After Major Outage Overnight She was born August 29, 1913 in the Dominican Republic and came to New York City in 1968. READ MORE: Live Updates: Ida Downgraded After…

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Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do

Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do

Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit: WorldFish/Felix Clay/Duckrabbit).

In a new book chapter (Ch. 15, Technologies for agricultural transformation: Animal health), Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Natural Resources Institute,…

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Joint UN-CGIAR assessment explains how animal-to-human pandemics like COVID-19 occur and how to prevent them in future

Joint UN-CGIAR assessment explains how animal-to-human pandemics like COVID-19 occur and how to prevent them in future

Cover of the new ILRI-UNEP zoonoses report and a graphic representation of the virus causing COVID-19—SARS-CoV-2—by ILRI communications specialist Annabel Slater.

[A] scientific assessment from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) finds that unless countries take dramatic steps to curb zoonotic contagions, global outbreaks like COVID-19…

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A collage for my review of Kiera Cass’ The Betrothed! I absolutely adored this book, from its love triangle to the trio of characters that front the novel, Hollis, Delia Grace, and Nora. Resisting the urge to reread it right now...

Credits: sky (a painting from the 19th century), roses, palace ceiling, women from paintings by Edmund Tarbell (left, middle, right)

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Africa’s growing risk of diseases that spread from animals to people

The outbreak of COVID-19 is a rude awakening to many who believed the era of infectious disease was over. In this post, Bernard Bett, Delia Randolph and John McDermott argue that not only are pandemics not over, they may be increasing in frequency; and while most originated in Asia in the past, Africa may be poised to become an important source of so-called ‘zoonotic pathogens’—with its…

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Today is World Food Safety Day—Watch why safe food matters are life-and-death matters to poor people worldwide Today, 7 Jun 2019, is the first-ever World Food Safety Day! #WorldFoodSafetyDay Here, for your pleasure and instruction, are three short videos highlighting Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), on the importance improving the safety of foods, particularly livestock-derived foods (meat, offal, milk and eggs) produced, sold and consumed by poor people across the developing world.

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Call to improve food safety in low- and middle-income countries—From hazards to risks and from farm to fork

Call to improve food safety in low- and middle-income countries—From hazards to risks and from farm to fork

The Milkmaid, by Johannes Vermeer, 1660.

Food safety hazards are increasingly recognized as a major public health problem worldwide, yet among developing countries, there is limited understanding of the wider-ranging socioeconomic costs of unsafe food and the benefits of remedial or preventative measures. This limited evidence base has led many countries to underinvest in food safety, or invest…

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Reducing use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock in low-income countries: Two scientists reflect on options

Reducing use of antimicrobial drugs in livestock in low-income countries: Two scientists reflect on options

Graphic by Peter Hermes Furian / Shutterstock.

Delia Grace Randolph, a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert who co-leads the Animal and Human Health program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Kenya, was interviewed recently by Wilton Park, a non-profit discussion centre in the UK, which organizes many events each year debating global issues.

The Wilton Park…

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