[APES Jobs] FW: [saabnet] RVFV Call for Botanical Services

[Bursaries, Employment and Career Opportunities in Environmental Fields]

Prof Kevin Balkwill

Professor in the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences

Assistant Dean:  Staff Development in the Faculty of Science

University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS, 2050, South Africa



Reverend Kevin Balkwill

Assistant Priest (self-supporting), Angican Church of St Mark, Northriding



Work Telephone +27 (0) 11 717-6468 -- Fax number +27 (0) 11 -717-6494 or 086-553-6376

Home telephone number +27 (0) 11 782-7642 -- Cell number 072-417-6813

E-mail: Kevin.Balkwill at wits.ac.za

http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/APES/  http://www.wits.ac.za/pullenfarm
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From: Quenton Kritzinger [Quenton.Kritzinger at up.ac.za]
Sent: 15 July 2014 01:15 PM
To: Saabnet
Subject: [saabnet] RVFV Call for Botanical Services

** Reply Requested When Convenient **

EcoHealth Alliance is seeking contract with an organization that can
provide the services of a full-time field botanist to join an international team of scientists
investigating the epidemiology and ecology of Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) in South Africa. This project
is a U.S. funded initiative and seeks to: 1) determine how immunity to RVFV changes over time in
sheep; 2) determine the herd immunity in wild and domestic ruminants; 3) understand the ecology
of the virus in the mosquito vector and 4) determine the immunity level in people working on
the study farms and detect new infections. This project is being undertaken through a
collaboration of Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, The National Institute for Communicable
Diseases (NICD), SANParks Veterinary Wildlife Service, Provincial Departments of
Agriculture and Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs, Universities Space
Research Association, among others.

For additional information see attached circular.


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