Zoonotic diseases, or zoonoses, are on the rise. That may first bring to mind exotic diseases like Ebola, but the reality is that many zoonotic infections happen closer to home, often during everyday ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Between late 2011 and 2013, three men in succession — aged 63, 62 and 72 years — from the state of Saxony-Anhalt ...

Zoonotic diseases, also called zoonoses, are illnesses caused by germs that are passed between animals and people. "Put simply, a zoonotic disease is one that originates in animals and can cause ...

In a recent study published in Eurosurveillance, researchers performed assessed the risk of reverse transmission of the monkeypox (MPX) virus (MPXV) of clade IIb or the West African clade from humans ...

Hundreds of infectious animal diseases are out there, and, without the right preventative measures, they can strike at any time. While most of these diseases spread only between animals, some can jump ...

Being responsible and sheltering at home is one way to limit the spread of COVID-19. Changing our relationship with wildlife and farm animals, however, would help keep deadly zoonotic diseases out of ...

Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases transmitted from animals to humans, such as rabies virus, avian influenza, and Ebola virus disease. Over 60% of all infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic ...

A new United Nations report warns that more diseases that pass from animals to humans, such as COVID-19, are likely to emerge as habitats are ravaged by wildlife exploitation, unsustainable farming ...