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Deadly African swine fever arrives in China, the world’s largest producer of pigs

Deadly African swine fever arrives in China, the world’s largest producer of pigs

Africa swine fever, which recently appeared in Shenyang City, in Liaoning Province, northeastern China, threatens the USD150-billion global pig industry.

This article is written by Vish Nene, co-leader of ILRI’s animal and human health program, and Han Jianlin, a population geneticist based in Beijing at the Joint Laboratory on Livestock and Forage Genetic Resources, which is run by ILRI and the…

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Vaccine research on Africa's cattle-killing East Coast fever: A short (somewhat potted but handsomely illustrated) history

Vaccine research on Africa’s cattle-killing East Coast fever: A short (somewhat potted but handsomely illustrated) history

Life-cycle of Theileria parva. This figure illustrates the different life cycle stages of the single-celled tick-transmitted Theileria parva parasite, which causes East Coast fever in cattle. The parasite undergoes transformations into different forms as it cycles through its mammalian and tick hosts. The figure, created by ILRI scientist Nicholas Svitek, was inspired by fluorescence and…

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