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Simon Kihu

Peste des petits ruminants disease in Turkana, Kenya

Risk factors, socio-economic impacts and disease control

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Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute, highly contagious and often fatal trans-boundary viral disease of economic importance primarily affecting goats, sheep, camels and antelopes; whereas cattle undergo sub-clinical infection. Clinical cases of PPR have been reported in arid and semi arid pastoral areas of northern Kenya since 2006. With the disease being relatively new in the country, this book provides description of PPR disease from the perspective of Turkana community in Turkana County, Kenya, an area where PPR first outbreaks were reported in 2006. Turkana community knowledge on PPR is analyzed and validated with laboratory tests… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Chege Gitao, George / Caroline Bebora, Lily
  • ISBN: 978-3-659-69752-4
  • EAN: 9783659697524
  • Produktnummer: 36370130
  • Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.9 cm 495 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 495

Über den Autor


Simon Kihu is a veterinarian; a PhD graduate from University of Nairobi and University of London. He has majored in rural development and virology. He works as a senior livestock program manager with Vetworks Eastern Africa pastoral livelihoods & livestock disease programs in marginal and conflict prone areas of East Africa.

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