Zoonoses are diseases and infections including viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi that are transmitted between animals and people. Innumerable case reports and epidemiologic studies have ...

Animals, as cute as some of them may be, can be a source of illness for humans. These so-called zoonotic diseases can originate from bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi. In fact, most infectious ...

Production animal disease outbreaks are not only animal health events but threats to economic stability and food security. A new report from The Farm Journal Foundation, The Mean Sixteen: Biosecurity ...

Human and animal health are closely linked, with many diseases shared between them. As our world becomes more developed and interconnected, the proximity between wild animals and humans is shrinking, ...

Disease epidemics transmitted from animals to humans could kill at least 12 times more people in 2050 than they did in 2020, according to a recently published study. These zoonotic diseases are known ...

From dogs and cats to dairy cows and sea turtles, animals around the world are suffering from various cancers, obesity, diabetes, and degenerative joint disease. Understanding the forces driving an ...

This form of immunity is non discriminatory; it is not directed against specific pathogens, but just about anything that enters the body that is foreign. Vertebrates have another more sophisticated ...

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, commonly referred to as the five "stan" countries of Central ...

We sometimes need to take precautions when interacting with animals. However, some animals can carry diseases known as zoonotic diseases, which can spread from animals to people in different ways, ...