Livestock diseases are a significant problem in improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers who struggle to attain nutritional and economic security. Vaccines are among the most successful medical and veterinary disease interventions known. To make vaccines that better protect livestock from diseases, there’s need to take advantage of paradigm shifts that are occurring in biosciences and to harvest from a deeper understanding of diseases and the processes that protect against them.
This poster, prepared for the Tropentag 2014 conference, explains the work of the vaccine biosciences group at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) which proposes to take advantage of rapid advances in biosciences and vaccine development to produce a new generation of vaccines for major livestock diseases such as African swine fever (ASF), contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), East Coast fever (ECF), peste des petits ruminants (PPR) and Rift Valley fever (RVF).
ILRI BioSciences 