Global Health News

04.15.2020
Pet Facial Recognition Helps Find Lost Cats and Dogs
Animal shelters are using the technology to identify animals and reunite them with their owners
Wall Street Journal

04.13.2020
The Real Reason Veterinarians Gave a Tiger a Covid-19 Test
It’s hard for humans in New York City to get a test for the coronavirus. So when a Bronx Zoo tiger tested positive for Covid-19, it invited some questions.
WIRED

03.04.2020
Kenya: Coronavirus - antibiotics, fever relievers helping passengers beat checks at airports
Kariuki Njenga, an infectious-disease expert and the director of the Washington State University Global health programme in Kenya, told the Sunday Nation that some travellers take antibiotics and others fever relievers a few hours before landing to throw off the laser thermometers at airports.
AllAfrica

03.04.2020
Kenya can combat virus, but there are conditions...
Scientists say with these measures, we can weather storm should virus land in Kenya
Daily Nation

03.04.2020
Your Pets Unlikely to Get or Give Coronavirus
The threat that the virus causing COVID-19 could sicken pets and spread between them and their owners is extremely low, veterinarians say.
Fetch WebMD

03.02.2020
Raising awareness may help prevent rabies deaths
Human rabies deaths are so rare in the United States that even healthcare providers may not recognize a rabies infection - or the role that bats might play - which puts patients and the public at further risk, researchers say.
Reuters

02.28.2020
Researchers use App in the fight against rabies
Researchers in Tanzania can now determine if a dog was vaccinated against rabies using a mobile phone camera image.
The East African

02.27.2020
Antibiotics fail against resistant germs
Growing up in Kenya, Sylvia Omulo had two guarantees: falling and infectious diseases. “I really liked to play,” she said. “Some of my favorite games involved speed and falling was a consequence of that — the other thing I was prone to was infectious diseases.”
The Daily Evergreen

02.24.2020
Making sense of the virome with functional viromics
Although deep-sequencing has uncovered thousands of animal virus sequences in nature, we still do not have an effective way to study all of these viruses in the laboratory. Our latest research outlines one approach we have taken to functionally studying the ever-growing virome.
Nature Microbiology

02.16.2020
Antibiotic resistance in Tanzania seen as an environmental problem
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are prevalent in people, wildlife and the water in northeastern Tanzania, but it's not antibiotic use alone that is driving resistance.
Daily News Tanzania