Lilongwe Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (LSPCA) has vaccinated more than 200,000 dogs in Malawi over the past 4 years. Our vaccination teams collect valuable information on numbers, gender, health, and age of dogs. As we understood that tracking the vaccinations was key to directing our efforts, we developed a home-built app for mobile phones.

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● COVID-19 is just one example of the rising trend of diseases—from Ebola to MERS to West Nile and Rift Valley fevers—caused by viruses that have jumped from animal hosts into the human population.
● A new assessment offers 10 recommendations and identifies One Health as the optimal way to prevent and respond to future pandemics.
● The rising trend in zoonotic diseases is driven by the degradation of our natural environment—through land degradation, wildlife exploitation, resource extraction, climate change and other stresses.

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Proper housing management and proper feeding are essential to animal well-being and welfare. Healthy donkeys just like any other animals can tolerate extreme temperatures if they adapt and have adequate feed and plenty of water. However, shelter can greatly improve the welfare of the donkey and reduce production losses.

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*Adapted from International Companion Animal Management Coalition (ICAM).

A new publication by biologist Xuhua Xia of the University of Ottawa is the latest in a string of theories put forward by scientists investigating the origin of SARS-CoV-2. This theory proposes the intestines of dogs could have provided a place for evolution of the ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 into a ‘fully ready’ virus capable of the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, this theory relies solely on inference from virus genome structures and there is no actual evidence of dogs as the origin, or that dogs are playing any role in current virus transmission. COVID-19 is a disease spread from person to person and this publication does not change that. 

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