Monthly Archives: November 2016

About Camel Milk~With Bactrian Perspectives

Originally posted on Natural Health with the Camel Milk:
Camels’ milk is the king of the milk kingdom, said by the Bactrian camel keepers in the Central Asia. It is the first choice for health maintenance. They think that their…

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Beating plague: Rinderpest is the second disease to be eradicated from the earth

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
ILRI veterinary epidemiologist Jeff Mariner presenting his research at a meeting of the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) (photo credit: OIE). A disease that has devastated the planet for millennia has been eradicated. An international…

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ILRI, FAO and Kenya veterinary service providers discuss control of peste de petits ruminants

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Participants of a joint meeting held by ILRI and FAO to discuss control of Peste de Petits Ruminants (PPR) in Kenya (Photo credit: ILRI/Samuel Mungai). Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), also known as ‘goat plague’, is…

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Tropical animal diseases and veterinary public health: ILRI at first AITVM/STVM joint conference

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
ILRI participants in the joint meeting From 4-8 September 2016 more than 250 researchers from 55 different countries met in Berlin, Germany, in the historic buildings of the Humboldt University for the first joint conference…

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Dairy goes green: New tool will enable smallholders to swap GHG emission reductions for carbon credits

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Dairy cow in Embu, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). By unlocking carbon credit markets, first-of-its-kind methodology looks to boost financing for smallholder farms, green the livestock sector The new dairy methodology is a key to…

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