Fifty-eight percent of households in Uganda depend on livestock for their livelihoods. Most of them are subsistence-oriented smallholders. According to the 2018 UBOS livestock census, In Uganda there are 14.2 million cattle, 16 million goats, 4.5 million sheep, 47.6 million poultry and 4.1 million pigs . However, the continued emergence of tick and tickborne diseases […]
In-Service Applied Veterinary and Epidemiology scientists have asked government to construct functional veterinary laboratories to help them fight against Zoonosis and trans boundaries diseases in animals. According to the scientists who noted that the spread of the diseases mainly Anthrax, rabies and Brucellosis among others now standing at 73% in animals also affects human beings. […]
