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, ...

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 ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

Animal industries in the United States pose serious risk of future pandemics and the U.S. government lacks a comprehensive strategy to address these threats, concludes a new study by Harvard Law ...

More than half of all infectious diseases in humans originate from animals. Many of these zoonotic diseases that we hear often about, such as Ebola, Rabies, Rift Valley fever and Covid-19, are caused ...

Volcanic eruptions were the first in a “perfect storm” of events that led to the devastation of the Black Death in Europe, according to a new study.One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, ...

ACIP has drifted toward inflating speculative risks while downplaying well-established vaccine benefits,” write former CDC ...

A volcanic eruption around 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic the Black Death, ...

In a recent study published on the preprint server Research Square*, researchers report that individuals with a history of Borrelia infection, otherwise known as Lyme disease, caused by tick bites are ...