Infectious disease experts are sounding the alarm about two pathogens in animals that have the potential to trigger the next ...

Learn more about the diseases that live in certain animals and if they can be transferred to humans.

Changes to land use can directly heighten the risk of diseases spreading from animals to humans, new University of ...

Chickens are able to pass bird flu to humans. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Avian flu, mad cow disease, hantavirus, black plague and other notorious ailments originated with animals and made the ...

Across the planet, animals are increasingly suffering from chronic illnesses once seen only in humans. Cats, dogs, cows, and even marine life are facing rising rates of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, ...

Around 6,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities across Eurasia were settling down and living with livestock — and the animals’ diseases came along for the ride. A massive genomic analysis of ...

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India is facing renewed concern over Nipah virus in West Bengal and bird flu in Bihar. While both are zoonotic diseases, Nipah virus is deadlier for humans, with a fatality rate of 40–75% and no ...

The Jasper County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi destroyed all but three monkeys that at last report were still on the loose after escaping from an overturned truck that was transporting them.