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Preventing disease transmission between people and wildlife

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.
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Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka collects gorilla faeces from their night beds, to analyse.

Conservation scientist and veterinarian Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka is the founder and chief executive of Conservation Through Public Health in Entebbe, Uganda. Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals/Nature Picture Library

I have been investigating and managing wildlife diseases since 1996, when I joined the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) 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.

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Nature 609, 1068 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03041-8

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