The Pirbright Institute took Dr Zoo’s Travelling Science Lab out on the road for the first time at Innovate Guildford 2019, a local science and arts festival which took place on Saturday 23 March. Visitors entering the ‘Viral Survival’ themed mini escape room were challenged with a series of scientific puzzles which they had to crack in under five minutes in order to survive a deadly virus.
News from March 2019
Pirbright demonstrate that testing milk samples could enhance foot-and-mouth disease surveillance in the field
A follow on study by scientists at The Pirbright Institute and the University of Glasgow has demonstrated that milk samples collected in the field can be used successfully to recognise cattle infected with foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV).
Scientists at The Pirbright Institute provide critical services for the peste des petits ruminants (PPR) eradication campaign. Outbreaks of PPR, a viral disease that mainly infects goats and sheep, occur mostly across Africa, Middle East and India, which currently cost between US$1.4 billion and US$2.1 billion per year.