FAO project GCP/GLO/496/USA: Support of Cooperation on Global Rinderpest Post-Eradication, Disease Surveillance and Associated Animal Health Capacity Building.
11 May 2016, Muguga, Kenya - Samia Metwally, Senior Animal Health Officer at he Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), stands next to a freezer holding cryogenicaly preserved specimens of the rinderpest causing pathogens 11, May 2016 to be destroyed at the Biotechnology Research Institute situated at the Muguga KALRO Campus in Kiambu county, Kenya. Destroying virus samples kept in laboratory freezers, one-third of which are storing them at biosecurity level 2 ?too low, is seen as a critical step in ensuring that a disease that took years to eradicate remains gone.
