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Oct 14, 2026
Kate McGovernHOST
[outro jingle] Economic impact of epizootic lymphangitis in cart-pulling horses in a low-income setting.
Kate McGovernHOST
Dr. Irusellam Honelay, Sailu, and colleagues from the University of Gondar, Ethiopia.
Kate McGovernHOST
For background, epizootic lymphangitis is a contagious fungal disease threatening the health and welfare of working equids and the economic stability of dependent communities in resource-constrained settings.
Kate McGovernHOST
The objective of this study was to assess owner clinical awareness regarding epizootic lymphangitis and to quantify the direct and indirect household-level financial losses attributable to the disease in an urban working cart horse population.
Kate McGovernHOST
In terms of study design, this was an observational cross-sectional survey.
Kate McGovernHOST
For methodology, structured questionnaire interviews were conducted with two hundred and eighty-five cart horse owners in Gondar Town, Ethiopia.
Kate McGovernHOST
Descriptive statistics, financial loss modeling, and multivariable logistic regression were applied to evaluate disease awareness, economic impact drivers, and sociodemographic predictors.
Kate McGovernHOST
In terms of results, near-universal clinical symptom recognition was observed among respondents, yet a profound educational gap existed, with sixty-five point eight five percent unaware of the underlying microbial etiology.
Agazit NegashGUEST
With my mom, she could have been a young bride.
Agazit NegashGUEST
And in her story, I talk about how there was supposed to be an arranged marriage and she she ran away and she moved she fleed and she went to go live with her aunt and her aunt took her in and at a very young age and she had to learn another language because she was raised in in Eritrea at the time Eritrea was still part of Ethiopia during that time but my mom spoke their language which is Tigranya and then when she moved to Gondar she had to learn Amharic so she had to hit the reset button and you know old when 14-15 so she had to be an immigrant Not only once, but twice because she came to the United States as well, right? So she had to start all over again.
Agazit NegashGUEST
There was no sense of safety and she fleed during war, during a civil war.
Agazit NegashGUEST
So like, can you imagine? It's not safe to be a woman.
David HarrisHOST
Coming up.
Tesfaye Yetayeh AntenehGUEST
In the outskirt of, uh, Gondar City, you can see a lot of synagogues, cemeteries, cultural heritage of the Beta Israeli community.
Alex Gabriel KalluaGUEST
As more Israelis visit Tanzania, they not only discover extraordinary landscapes and wildlife, but also develop lasting friendships and a deep understanding of our people and the culture.
David HarrisHOST
So, sit back and enjoy the trip with Mark Gordon and David Harris.
Mark GordonHOST
So, we met with Ambassador Tesfaye Yitaye, who tells us about the Jewish history of Ethiopia.
Mark GordonHOST
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Tesfaye Yetayeh AntenehGUEST
The Beta Israeli communities lived in Ethiopia for more than, uh, 2,000 years, and the place where they mostly lived was Gondar area.
Tesfaye Yetayeh AntenehGUEST
Gondar was the capital city of, uh, Ethiopia during, during the medieval period.
Monty MaderHOST
He spent 1769 to 1771 in Cairo.
Monty MaderHOST
at the court of Gondar in the Ethiopian highlands, reached the springs of Gisha Bay on November 4th, 1770, and came home through Sudan and Egypt, arriving in France in 1773, London in 1774, with three Ge'ez manuscripts of Enoch.
Monty MaderHOST
He gave one to the Royal Library in Paris, one to the Boldean Library in Oxford, and kept the third, which was part of the complete Ethiopic Bible.
Monty MaderHOST
When he published his travels to discover the source of the Nile in 1790, he dismissed the book as a Gnostic work about angels and giants and said little more.
Florent MarchaisCORRESPONDENT
They were persecuted under Ethiopia's Derg communist regime, which ruled the country between the 1970s and '90s.
Florent MarchaisCORRESPONDENT
To protect them, Israel airlifted over 20,000 Jews to the Promised Land, but some were left behind and they remain waiting in limbo in the town of Gondar.
Florent MarchaisCORRESPONDENT
Hello, Mrs. Mamet.
Florent MarchaisCORRESPONDENT
How are you?
Florent MarchaisCORRESPONDENT
Relatives have held protests outside the Knesset, demanding visas for family members under the Law of Return, which automatically grants Jewish people the right to immigrate to Israel.
Florent MarchaisCORRESPONDENT
But Israel claims to have already welcomed all of the true Ethiopian Jews, and the last visas granted to this community were in 2021.
Florent MarchaisCORRESPONDENT
The rabbi takes us to the ancient Jewish town of Woleka, five kilometers from Gondar.
Florent MarchaisCORRESPONDENT
Once a center for the Jewish community, the town has been taken over by Orthodox Christians, and now even the rabbi is uncomfortable wearing his kippah in public and waits until he enters the synagogue to put it on.