Mission and Vision

Through collaboration the STAR IDAZ community can speed up the delivery of disease control tools and strategies.

STAR IDAZ aims to strengthen the linkages between and reduce the duplication of global research effort on high priority infectious diseases of animals (including zoonoses), maximise the efficient use of expertise and resources, and accelerate coordinated development of control methods.

STAR IDAZ Scope

The scope of STAR IDAZ includes coordination of research relevant to emerging and major infectious diseases of livestock and aquatic animals, and those infections of animals that may carry the risk of disease threat to human health.

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New publication explores the development of effective cattle tick vaccines

1st September 2026

STAR IDAZ IRC is delighted to announce the publication of “Questing for sustainable control of cattle ticks: bottlenecks in developing efficacious vaccines,” an Opinion piece in Trends in Parasitology. Naturally acquired immunity to cattle ticks in certain cattle breeds demonstrates that developing vaccines to prevent…

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New Capripoxvirus Research Review identifies advances and critical knowledge gaps

18th August 2026

A new STAR IDAZ Research Review brings together the most important capripoxvirus research published between January 2015 and June 2026, providing an evidence base to guide future research, funding and disease-control priorities. Capripoxviruses (CaPV) cause clinically and economically significant transboundary diseases in cattle, sheep and…