I think so too Barbara. I think that Kenya is on the way to establish such systems, so our technology would fit. You should catch up with my team the next time you are in Nairobi.

Thanks and I totally agree with you!

The link is a great opportunity, lets discuss potential fields of collaboration. We decided to work on camels since nobody else is working on these creatures, we think that camels are cool and we had a good gut feeling. Sometimes it does not need more.

We are all excited too. Science at ILRI is fun at the moment and my group produced great results. We just established a infection model, which will enable the proper read out of vaccine candidates. And we have two potential candidate live vaccines that need to be tested in the course of the year.

The road map on vaccines has been drawn by Vish. I am optimistic that we have a proof of principle for a novel vaccine in less than 5 years.

Yes, of course. Thats why this technology has a lot of potential.

This is Prof Douglas Weibel from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).

Polly,

I think so. Climate change is favouring resilient camels and we are in the centre of the world camel population. About 75 % of the world camels are in the greater horn of Africa. So lets work on camel diagnostics, vaccines etc.

Stuart,

Thank you for your comments. In terms of role out, we need partnerships! Only in partnership with the many stakeholders we can prepare implementation and role out of such a test. You are right that such a test is useful for trade, vaccine campaigns etc.

Karen,

Unfortunately we do not know too much about resistance of different breeds, but I am sure that different breeds will show different resistance patterns as anecdotal data suggest. We should write a proposal together on this! Theoretically we can detect 100 or more pathogens on one chip. We have hopefully next year a chip with about 6 – 10 pathogens to be detectable.