By Agency Report
The Acting Director, University of Ilorin (Unilorin)
Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Olatunde Akanbi, has
created an application on Google play store named
“Poultry Diseases Navigator App”.

According to the Unilorin Bulletin issued on Monday,
the App was created in conjunction with some
Google software developers.

“It is a guide on husbandry practices, vaccination
requirements, diseases outbreaks prevention and
profitability plans for poultry farm owners, farm
supervisors and managers.

“This brings valuable lessons from research carried
out on about 5000 poultry farmers across the length
and breadth of Nigeria and the interventions made
on their flocks over the last 15 years.

“The result of the research revealed needless and
avoidable chick and chicken losses on poultry
farms,’’ it said.

The publication explained that the App covers
diseases such as Aspergillosis, Coccidiosis,
Newcastle diseases, Marek’s disease, Avian
influenza and helminthiasis.

Others, it said, include nutritional induced disease
conditions, several bacterial diseases and air, water,
feed and litter contaminants with excellent pictures
that illustrate the disease conditions.

It described Mr Akanbi, the major designer of the
App, as an Associate Professor/Reader in Veterinary
Pathology.

“Former Ag. Head of the Department of Veterinary
Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Ag.
Director Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of
Ilorin.

“Akanbi, who has been a poultry farmer since 1997,
was a Visiting Research Scholar at Humboldt
University, Berlin Germany, University of Veterinary
Medicine, Hannover, Germany, and the famous
Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Insel-
Riems, Germany, between 2009 and 2019.

“He was elected member of the European Society
of Veterinary Pathology in 2007 and became a
Fellow of the College of Veterinary Surgeons of
Nigeria in 2018,’’ it said.
(NAN)

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