So building on that experience and together with the experience here at the Jenner Institute, I am going to exploit the synergies between the livestock vaccine development and human vaccine development which is done here at the Jenner Institute to develop a vaccine against Rift Valley Fever which might be useful for both livestock and humans. It is one of very few Institutes in Africa that actually have that capacity and expertise of livestock vaccine development. They develop disease control interventions against diseases most prevalent in Africa, for instance East Coast Fever and Rift Valley Fever. GW: The International Livestock Research Institute, which I will call ILRI, is a Centre of Excellence in Africa. Q: Can you tell us about your work with the International Livestock Research Institute? But we do not have a vaccine, which again adds to the worry and that is why there are many programmes trying to develop a vaccine against Rift Valley Fever. Although in the last decade the disease has popped up in part of the Middle East and there are growing concerns that the virus will spread to Europe and other parts of the world, particularly because the mosquitoes that transmit the virus are widespread globally. GW: The virus was originally isolated in Kenya in 1930 and since then there has been a spread of the disease throughout much of Africa and much of Africa now actually has the disease, so it is endemic in Africa.
Q: Is it widespread and do we have a vaccine? In humans you get a febrile illness that tends to resemble flu, although a proportion of individuals do get severe complications such as blindness or even death. In sheep, which is the species that bears the brunt of the disease, you get very high mortalities in young lambs, and in pregnant sheep you get abortions - which are a hallmark of the disease. It primarily infects sheep, goats and cattle, although the disease also affects humans so it is a zoonosis. It is transmitted by mosquitoes and caused by a virus called the Rift Valley Fever virus. GW: Rift Valley Fever is a disease of livestock.
Dr George Warimwe talks about his research on Rift Valley Fever. But how many times has he answered when we haven’t realized he’s moved heaven and earth-and maybe a company of righteous angels-to do it? Had the human warriors not told what they saw, who ever would have known what really happened that night.This is a podcast from the Nuffield Department of Medicine. Sure, sometimes God chooses not to answer our desperate prayers exactly as we wish. His answer? “We were on our way to attack and kill them, but as we came closer, suddenly between us and the school there were many men dressed in white, holding flaming swords.” He said he and his warriors were all terrified, and fled down the hill, never to return. At his trial, the leader of Mau Maus, who led that attack, was asked, “On this particular night did you intend to kill the inhabitants ?” No one knew the rest of the story until sometime later, when a Mau Mau warrior was in jail, and on trial. The warriors never made it to the school, and no one was harmed. The night went on, with teachers and children huddled at RVA, praying and fully expecting to be attacked, and likely killed, any moment.īut nothing happened. Desperate phone calls were made and people around the world were called upon to pray for God’s intervention. Word got out about this plan, but it was too late to evacuate the school or to get outside protection. That particular night during the “Mau Mau rebellion,” the ruthless warriors of the Mau Mau tribe gathered to climb the hill up to the missionary school (RVA) to capture and kill the missionary children and teachers, and fulfill their vows by eating the brains of white men, who they considered their oppressors. He pointed out to us where the events of that night unfolded. Shel’s family was living there at the time. Herbert Lockyer wrote of it in his book on angels, and I think it’s in Billy Graham’s book on angels too. During our visit, Shel told me a story I’ve heard since, about something that happened there in the 1950’s. Shel grew up attending Rift Valley Academy in Kijabe, Kenya. My family stayed with the Shel Arensen family in Kenya back in 1989. Here is Randy Alcorn’s telling of it in response to a question he received about the presence of angels and demons: This story of God’s intervention to spare the lives of the staff and students of RVA during the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950’s has been written about in several well known books about angels. AugJby Jonathan In Faith-Filled Friday 6 Comments
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