IDRC Brown Bag Seminar
IDRC Brown Bag Seminar
VACCINES: CAN ANIMAL DISEASES IN AFRICA BE ELIMINATED TO HELP FEED THE POOR?
Infectious diseases are the single largest cause of livestock mortality worldwide, disrupting international agricultural trade and contributing to food insecurity. In sub-Saharan Africa, livestock production is vital to the livelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers and accounts for 25% of national income in some countries.
Funded by the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund, Canada and South Africa’s expertise in vaccine research is being put to work to develop and test a cost-effective and easy-to-administer single-dose vaccine that will protect cattle, sheep, and goats from multiple livestock diseases. A second project, involving researchers from Kenya and Canada, is developing a vaccine to protect cattle against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia – a highly contagious bacterial disease of cattle that has serious economic and trade consequences in sub-Saharan Africa
Join us to hear Dr. Andrew Potter, director of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan, and Dr. David Wallace, senior researcher at the Agricultural Research Council in South Africa, talk about the work that their two teams are doing on livestock vaccine development in Africa.
When: Tuesday, May 7th 2013, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: IDRC, 150 Kent Street, 8th Floor, W. David Hopper Room
RSVP: Jayne Bergeron at 613-696-2537 or email jbergeron@idrc.ca
Attendance is free but seating is limited.
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