By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, October 17th, 2014
in Blog.
We share the world’s deep concern regarding West Africa’s Ebolavirus outbreak and the devastating impact the virus is having on people, communities and nations. We are also concerned about the separate Ebolavirus outbreak occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gorillas are highly susceptible to Ebolavirus; indeed, many thousands of western lowland gorillas have […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, August 22nd, 2014
in Blog.
by Jessica Burbridge On August 8, the Ebola virus epidemic rapidly spreading through West African countries was formally declared an international public health emergency by the World Health Organization. WHO director Dr. Margaret Chan called it “the largest, most severe, most complex outbreak [of the Ebola virus] in the nearly four-decade history of the disease.” […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, August 15th, 2014
in Blog.
Dr. Julius Nziza, Gorilla Doctors Research Project Coordinator for PREDICT Rwanda, is wrapping up an interesting six-week stint in Chicago where he’s studied the genetics of bat species in Rwanda and curating techniques at The Field Museum of Natural History. Dr. Julius is working with Dr. Bruce Patterson, the MacArthur Curator of Mammals, Dr. Bill […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Saturday, June 21st, 2014
in Blog.
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Olivier Nsengimana, Gorilla Doctors Field Veterinarian for the PREDICT Rwanda project, has been named a winner of the prestigious 2014 ROLEX Awards for Enterprise! Dr. Olivier and the four other Young Laureates, hailing from Africa, India, Europe and the Middle East, attended a ceremony today in London, where […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, March 29th, 2013
in Blog.
by Jessica Burbridge The Gorilla Doctors Uganda and Rwanda PREDICT teams are busy year-round collecting samples from primates, rodents and bats in areas of intense human-wildlife interaction in order to test for emerging infectious diseases. The USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT program, now in it’s fourth year, “aims to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, March 22nd, 2013
in Blog.
Gorilla Doctors Co-Directors Drs. Kirsten Gilardi and Mike Cranfield, along with PREDICT vets Drs. Julius Nziza and Benard Ssebide traveled to Rome, Italy for a worldwide meeting on emerging pandemic threats last week. PREDICT staff from 23 different countries met to discuss protocols on how to get samples from humans, rodents and bats from areas […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, March 1st, 2013
in Blog.
by Jessica Burbridge A visit to Bweza group in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park with Dr. Fred and PhD student Tierra Smiley Evans turned into a nine-hour strenuous trek in the pouring rain. But early afternoon, the sun burst through the clouds and we finally found the group, deep in a densely vegetated ravine, busy feeding […]
By Gorilla Doctors Staff
on Friday, February 25th, 2011
in Uncategorized.
By Molly Feltner, MGVP Communications Officer Thanks to the USAID PREDICT grant awarded to the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, MGVP has been able to hire 2 new African veterinarians, Dr. Rachael Mbabazi and Dr. Olivier Nsengimana. Both will be serving as field assistants for the PREDICT program, with Dr. Rachael working under Dr. Benard […]
