Zoonotic diseases, like COVID-19, malaria, and rabies, are illnesses that can spread from animals to people and vice versa.

Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans. Like COVID-19, bird flu, malaria or Ebola. Zoonotic diseases affect around 2.6 billion people every year. Some ...

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, ...

There has been a great deal of interest and intense debates surrounding the origins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) since the novel coronavirus was first detected in ...

After contracting COVID-19, a scientist in India delved into data on what mammal species pose the greatest risk for future pandemics. Researchers found that 26.5% of mammals in the wildlife trade ...

Understanding animal disease is essential if we want to prevent future pandemics, writes Keith Hamilton. As the first WHO-organised joint mission to Wuhan, China comes to a close, critical questions ...

The recent eruption of COVID-19 near a "wet market" in Wuhan, China — where vendors brought a variety of live wild animals together for purchase, slaughter and consumption — calls our attention to a ...

Capnocytophaga canimorsus, a Gram‐negative bacterium colonising the oral cavities of dogs and cats, represents a clinically significant zoonotic pathogen. Although often part of the normal animal ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) scientific advisory group on Friday released a report on the origins of COVID-19, concluding that available evidence suggests the deadly pandemic was caused by ...

State wildlife officials have received nearly $800,000 to get ahead of wildlife disease outbreaks before they cross the barrier from animals to humans and become pandemics. The Massachusetts Division ...