There’s no need to reiterate the threat posed by zoonotic viruses that jump from animals to humans, particularly coronaviruses. But while a bat coronavirus recently made headlin...
10/19/2020One Health & Zoonoses
Comparative oncology, which brings together the efforts of veterinary and human medical professionals, takes advantage of the similarities in cancer between dogs and humans to f...
08/27/2020The emergence of infectious diseases in humans originates primarily in the animal kingdom. Accelerated by the exploitation of the Earth and its resources, these zoonotic disease...
07/23/2020There are more than 827,000 viruses in the animal kingdom that have the potential to infect humans. This figure is all the more alarming given that just 13 zoonoses are responsi...
07/07/2020While amyloid fibril aggregates are known to cause numerous diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and Parkinson’s disease, researchers have now shown...
07/03/2020In recent years, emerging diseases have increasingly made headlines. Avian influenza, Zika, Ebola, and now COVID-19—these diseases of animal origin pose particularly complex and...
06/30/2020