Preventing disease transmission between people and wildlife

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Conservation scientist Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka looks after the health of mountain gorillas and livestock in southwest Uganda and teaches local residents how to avoid illness.

I have been investigating and managing wildlife diseases since 1996, when I joined the Uganda Wildlife Authority as its first veterinarian. After I graduated from the Royal Veterinary College of the University of London in 1995, I was eager to fulfil my passion for working with wildlife, particularly gorillas.

In 2003, I founded a non-profit organization that monitors and tracks zoonotic diseases — those transmitted between wildlife, humans and livestock — and promotes the conservation of mountain gorillas. We work in and around the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda.

 

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CTPHuganda Not surprising that Dr Gladys has nothing to say about the lives lost in the name of 'saving the gorilla'.

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