Global Animal Health News
Global Animal Health News
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08.20.2019
WSU economists Jill McCluskey and Tom Marsh named Western Agricultural Economics Association Fellows
Recognized for making enduring contributions over their careers to agricultural, resource, and environmental economics in the Western United States, the Western Agricultural Economics Association recognized Jill McCluskey and Tom Marsh as 2019 Fellows.
WSU Insider
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08.14.2019
WSU expands Protein Biotechnology Program through new $2.3 million NIH grant
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health has awarded Washington State University NIH Protein Biotechnology Training Program $2.3 million over the next five years to support training of Ph.D. graduate students.
WSU Insider
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08.13.2019
Mobile phone-based surveillance for animal disease in rural communities: implications for detection of zoonoses spillover
Improving the speed of outbreak detection and reporting at the community level are critical in managing the threat of emerging infectious diseases, many of which are zoonotic. The widespread use of mobile phones, including in rural areas, constitutes a potentially effective tool for real-time surveillance of infectious diseases
The Royal Society
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07.16.2019
Eight WSU faculty elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Eight faculty from Washington State University have been elected to membership in the Washington State Academy of Sciences, an organization that advances science in the state and informs public policy.
WSU Insider
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07.16.2019
WSAS announces 24 new Academy members
The Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) is pleased to announce 24 new members, recognizing their outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement and their willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.
WSAS
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07.11.2019
Vaccinations - a win-win for both wildlife and people
As wilderness areas become ever more fragmented the probability that infectious diseases will be transmitted between domestic animals and wildlife increases. Global Animal Health Tanzania (GAHT) works to reduce the likelihood and impact of these events in the buffer zones around the Serengeti ecosystem where people, their dogs and livestock mix with numerous wildlife species.
Tusk
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06.04.2019
Francisella tularensis enters a double membraned compartment following cell-cell transfer
Previously, we found that phagocytic cells ingest bacteria directly from the cytosol of infected cells without killing the initially infected cell (Steele et al., 2016). Here, we explored the events immediately following bacterial transfer. Francisella tularensis bacteria acquired from infected cells were found within double-membrane vesicles partially composed from the donor cell plasma membrane.
eLife Magazine
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05.23.2019
How clayen fridge will allow better rabies vaccine storage
In the 1990s, rabies—a viral disease that is incurable once the symptoms set it—nearly wiped out the tiny population of African wild dogs living in the Tanzanian side of the Serengeti National Park. It also killed many people.
The East African