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

Feral hogs already cause billions in damage, but two dangerous diseases could make the problem far worse for farms and ...

Farming animals for fur is not only cruel but also provides an ideal environment for viruses to mix and cross over into ...

One cat can have more than 100 kittens in her lifetime. While the kitten overload might look adorable, it creates real ...

These practices focus on controlling people, animals, equipment, and vehicles that come in contact with livestock. Simple ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza A new perspective highlights how the influenza D virus and a canine–feline recombinant coronavirus ...

Destroying forests, draining wetlands, and reshaping land can increase disease risk by changing how people and wildlife ...

It often starts with swollen lymph nodes and weight loss before robbing the sufferer of sleep, energy and mobility. Transmitted by tsetse flies, sleeping sickness is one of Africa’s most feared ...

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 ...

From obesity in cats and dogs and osteoarthritis in pigs, to cancer in whales and high blood glucose in racoons, chronic diseases are increasingly becoming a concern across the animal world, a recent ...

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 ...