14/06/2018

With the intent of aiding efforts towards the elimination of the human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, FAO and WHO jointly held a training course for Eastern...

10/06/2018

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has assisted the Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal in the destruction and sequestration of Rinderpest Virus-Containing Material (RVCM). FAO notes that...

31/05/2018

Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a newly emerged transboundary animal disease spreading throughout the Middle East, Turkey, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe.   

11/05/2018

There are a number of vector-borne diseases (VBDs) already present or threatening cattle in the Balkans, notably lumpy skin disease (LSD), but also bluetongue (BT) and Rift Valley fever (RVF)....

30/03/2018

A special awareness creation program to alert livestock farmers and pastoralists in Nigeria on the likely reemergence of Rinderpest, and what to do when signs of the devastating animal disease...