Uganda recently joined other countries in Africa to pilot the Tripartite Joint Risk Assessment (JRA) tool for zoonotic threats. A zoonotic disease is a disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans or from humans to vertebrate animals, according to World Health Organization (WHO). The country has in the last five years experienced a number of zoonotic disease outbreaks including Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus disease ...