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There is a version of this appeal that opens with a lion roaring across an empty savannah. Let me offer you a different scene, because it is closer to the truth.

Pick up a tray of eggs at a supermarket in Nairobi. The packaging may tell you the grade, the count, sometimes the county of origin. What it will not tell you is whether the hen that laid them ever stood on anything but wire, or turned around, or opened her wings.

The human toll was serious. The economic toll was extraordinary. Gulf states closed their markets to Kenyan and regional livestock, and the ban outlasted the outbreak by years. Pastoralist households that had never heard of a phlebovirus lost their entire income because a buyer two thousand kilometres away could no longer be confident…