Zoonosis

The Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology would like to congratulate Dr Sam Kahariri, and team including the department chair Dr. Marianne Mureithi & Prof. Thumbi Mwangi for their fantastic article titled "The evolution of Kenya’s animal health surveillance system and its potential for efficient detection of zoonoses" published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science!

To read the article click here or download the PDF

Rodents are known reservoir hosts for many pathogens that can cause disease in humans. The risk of zoonotic spillover is high in informal urban settlements (slums) where rodents and human densities are high, rodents live in close proximity to humans and human knowledge of disease risks and access to health care is limited.