My interest in science, particularly in biological sciences, dates back to my early education, where I developed a special fascination with vectors responsible for zoonotic disease ...
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About Hannah Mwangi, our new Jr. Project Manager
Applying sustainable parasite control measures on farms with the Horizon Europe SPARC project
Who should be involved in making parasite control more sustainable in livestock production? And what do these stakeholders need? What measures can be tested on pilot farms? SPARC d ...
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How healthy animals could combat the climate crisis
Across the world, farmers and governments are under growing pressure to address emissions from livestock, leading to calls to reduce livestock numbers.
It is believed that impro ...
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Launch of WAAVP- African Network
Kreavet had the privilege of being invited to the launch of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP) African Network (WAAVP-AN) in Cotonou, Beni ...
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NGS in worm parasites of veterinary importance: new avenues for control?
Alistair Antonopoulos and Johannes Charlier (Kreavet) together with John Gilleard (University of Calgary) published a new review on the current state of Next Generation Sequencing ...
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Who is Alistair Antonopoulos, our new scientific project manager?
Alistair is a biomedical scientist with a strong background in molecular biology and anthelmintic resistance mechanisms. He joined Kreavet in February 2022, broadening hi ...
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Lack of appropriate control tools for major infectious diseases of animals
New research published in The Lancet Planetary Health has identified a lack of appropriate control tools for many infectious diseases of animals that can have a significant impact ...
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European Commission releases new project to tackle climate change through functional feed in small ruminants
Kreavet participates as a supporting partner in the new EU co-funded programme, LIFE MiCliFeed, that will develop circular, bioactive feed additives for sheep and goats to reduce g ...
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Tong Wang joins Kreavet
This January 2022, Tong Wang joined Kreavet as R&D manager. Here is his story on why he made the move from Canada to Belgium and how he sees to further a career in parasitology ...
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The link between animal health and climate change: not simple.
In this Letter to the Scientific Journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, co-authored with Prof Eric Morgan and Prof Ilias Kyriazakis ( #Queen's University of Belfast), and in ...
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On the alleged link between animal production and COVID-19
The crisis is a fact, the way out uncertain. We see the deadly virus as the very real and almost only truth and act accordingly. Almost every social, commercial and political act t ...
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WANTED: Scientific expertise - Will it take experts to heal the world?
It is striking that political leaders today underline how their decisions to contain the COVID-19 outbreak are based on expert recommendations. By experts they of course mean virol ...
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Kreavet co-organised the Mid-term COMBAR meeting:
Together with the Laboratory of Parasitology of Ghent University, Kreavet organised the third joint Working Group and Management Committee meeting of the COST Action COMBAR from ...
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Meating greenhouse gas emission targets: reflections on the emissions from livestock
Having worked on the impact of climatic changes on endemic parasitic disease in the EU funded research project GLOWORM, I was asked to give a presentation on the impact of climate ...
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Scientists discuss research towards mitigating anthelmintic resistance in livestock
The second COMBAR Working Groups meeting was successfully held in León (Spain), 26-27 September 2018.
90 researchers from 30 countries came together at the Universit ...
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Researchers create new network to combat anthelmintic resistance in livestock
Kreavet is proud to contribute to this new network from institutes across Europe to discuss a coordinated approach in tackling anthelmintic resistance in ruminants. Are you in ...
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About antibiotics and anthelmintics in animals
Reducing the need for antibiotics
We live in an era where medicinal use in humans has never been higher, but where use of medicines in food-producing animals seems to be less an ...
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