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Zoonosis: Pigs and Wild Boars Are Behind the Increased Circulation of the Hepatitis E Virus
The spread of the hepatitis E virus, which is emerging in Europe, is on the rise. Autochthonous cases are appearing, resulting from zoonotic transmission from pigs and wild boar...
Reverse zoonosis: What is the actual risk?
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted the zoonotic risk associated with the transmission of pathogens from animals to humans. But the reverse—the transmission of pathogens fro...
Leishmaniasis: Dogs on the Front Lines
Leishmaniasis is a serious chronic parasitic disease—one that is still not well understood—that affects humans as well as an increasing number of animal species. Dogs are partic...
Translational Research: When "One Health" Becomes "One Literature"
While translational research is beginning to blur the lines between different medical disciplines, the species barrier remains firmly in place. Despite the “One Health” approach...
Comparative Oncology: Bridging the Gap Between Veterinarians and Physicians in Veterinary Medicine
Science has repeatedly shown that cancers in pets and humans share similarities—whether in terms of appearance, genetics, or response to treatment. In this context, animal studi...
A New Canine Coronavirus That Can Be Transmitted to Humans
American and Asian researchers have isolated a new coronavirus of canine origin in patients with pneumonia in Malaysia. It is potentially the eighth coronavirus to have crossed...
Hepatitis B Virus Discovered in Donkeys and Zebras
The discovery of a previously unknown hepatitis B virus in donkeys and zebras opens up new opportunities for understanding the progression of the disease. Until now, the lack of...
One Health: A Study of Zoonotic Parasites in Cats
Feral and stray cats serve as reservoirs for pathogens that can be transmitted to humans. Researchers believe that better characterizing the parasites involved and the associate...
Diabetes: A Health Risk Shared by Dogs and Their Owners
Owners of dogs with type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop the disease themselves—specifically, they are 38% more at risk. However, this correlation does not hold true for c...
Allergies in Dogs Linked to Those of Their Owners Through the Microbiota
According to researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland, dogs are more likely to have allergies when their owners also suffer from allergic symptoms. It’s a curious co...
Leptospirosis: Cats Play a Role in the Spread of This Rat-Borne Disease
Leptospira infection in cats—despite the fact that cats are predators of rodents, the primary reservoir of these bacteria—remains underestimated. A study sheds new light on the...
Zoonotic risk: The Reston ebolavirus can infect pigs... and humans
The pathogenicity of the Reston Ebola virus in pigs is becoming clearer, with a new study establishing viable intraspecies transmission. Health authorities are concerned about t...
A New Breakthrough in the Fight Against Cancer in Dogs, Cats, and Humans
A study sheds light on interactions within cells and paves the way for potential treatments for neurodegenerative diseases and cancer in both humans and animals. In an effort to...
Zoonosis: Cat-Scratch Disease Associated with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
What if certain mental disorders had a bacterial origin? A new study links the bacterial agent responsible for cat-scratch disease to a wide range of clinical signs associated w...
Cancer: Toward a Humane Treatment for Canine Carcinomas
In a new clinical study, veterinarians at the University of Washington sought to determine the effectiveness of a treatment used in humans for breast cancer on the growth of can...
Zoonosis: A New Species of Rickettsia Bacteria in Dogs
Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified a new species of Rickettsia bacteria that may cause serious diseases in dogs and humans. In 2018 and 2019, three d...
Gaining a Better Understanding of Ticks' Salivary Glands to Fight Them More Effectively
Ticks are parasites that carry many diseases, including Lyme disease, tick-borne meningoencephalitis, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, to name just a few. The best way to pr...
MERS-CoV: The Forgotten Zoonotic Coronavirus That’s Still a Concern Today
Right now, all eyes are on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which is causing one of the most alarming pandemics of this century. But it is far from being the only coronavirus that in...
Zoonosis: Concerns Over a Swine Coronavirus
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...
Comparative Oncology: Do Dogs Hold the Key to New Therapeutic Targets?
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...
Epidemiological Surveillance to Better Anticipate Zoonoses
The 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...
Reverse zoonoses: from humans to animals
There 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...
Like a prion, a virus that causes amyloid plaques
While 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...
Which zoonoses should we be monitoring in the coming years?
In 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...
Lyme disease can cause heart problems in cats
Although Lyme disease is often asymptomatic in cats, it may cause carditis, just as it does in dogs and humans. Lyme borreliosis, also known as Lyme disease, is caused by a grou...
A vaccine against the Nipah virus?
The Nipah virus, a rare but deadly zoonotic disease, is a major concern for public health and animal health. A new study evaluates the use of bovine herpesvirus (BoHV-4) as a po...
Surveillance of zoonoses in flying foxes
If the current COVID-19 pandemic has taught us one thing, it is that monitoring zoonotic diseases in potential vectors and hosts is crucial for anticipating this kind of event....
Zoonoses Transmitted by Rats
Rats have coexisted with humans since time immemorial, and the same is true of their pathogenic organisms. Bacteria, viruses, parasites… many have even evolved to infect humans....
Hepatitis E: A New Viral Outbreak Transmitted by Rats
Rat hepatitis E can infect humans. This mode of transmission, which remains largely a mystery, is cause for concern. Although only a few dozen cases have been detected, research...
When Lyme Disease Evades the Immune System
New findings shed light on the immune evasion mechanisms of the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, which can have serious consequences for both animals and humans. A key molecule...
OneHealth: When a Swine Coronavirus Infects Chickens and Turkeys
A swine coronavirus can easily spread to chickens and turkeys, which then develop the disease. Is this a potential threat to humans? The porcine deltacoronavirus in question was...
Dogs and Humans: The Same Brain Region for Processing Numbers
According to a news report According to the study, dogs and humans process numerical quantities in a similar brain region. The results suggest a common neural mechanism that is...
One Health: Bats, a Source of New Pandemics
While bats are, through no fault of their own, a reservoir of zoonotic diseases with pandemic potential, it is human activity that is driving an increase in cross-species contac...
The toxoplasmosis parasite reduces anxiety in infected mice—not just fear of predators
Une étude montre qu’au-delà de l’inhibition de la peur vis-à-vis des félins, le parasite de la toxoplasmose diminue l’anxiété générale chez le rongeur infecté, ainsi que son aversion pour un large panel de menaces.
Comparative Medicine: Links Identified Between Osteoarthritis in Dogs and Humans
Une équipe de chercheurs, dirigée par le Royal Veterinary College, a observé pour la première fois des similitudes clés entre l’arthrose spontanée chez le chien et chez l’homme
Melanoma: Cross-species Oncology Research Identifies New Therapeutic Targets
Mélanome : la découverte de mutations génétiques similaires chez l’homme, le chien et le cheval offre des cibles thérapeutiques
Canine Leishmaniasis: First Case of Non-Vector-Borne Infection Between Two Dogs Across the Channel
Au Royaume-Uni, un shih tzu qui présentait des vomissements, de la diarrhée et une perte de poids est mort en trois semaines de la leishmaniose. La contamination s’est faite directement, de chien à chien, sans passer par un insecte piqueur
Feline Infectious Peritonitis: A Promising Human Antiviral Treatment for Feline Infectious Peritonitis in Cats
The emergence of exotic diseases in humans, such as the Ebola virus and SARS, has intensified research into the replication of human RNA viruses and the development of new antiv...
Encephalopathy: Could Chronic Wasting Disease in Deer Soon Become a Zoonosis?
Chronic wasting disease is currently spreading in the United States and Canada. American researchers estimate that meat from infected animals (deer, elk, moose, etc.) could pose...
Mengla: Discovery of a New Ebola-Related Filovirus Transmitted by a Bat
A new genus of filovirus has just been identified and characterized in a Rousettus bat in China by researchers from Singapore, in collaboration with a Chinese team. This expands...
Zoonoses: Contact with Monkeys Puts African Populations at Risk
Animal diseases that infect humans pose a major threat to human health worldwide and often spread from non-human primates. A large-scale study, reported in PLOS Neglected Tropic...
Zoonoses: A New Model for Identifying Viruses That Are Potentially Pathogenic to Humans
American researchers have developed a model that can predict not only whether a given zoonotic virus poses a risk of transmission to humans, but also the risk of human-to-human...
Glioma in Dogs and Humans: A Comparative Clinical Trial Is Underway to Treat This Brain Cancer
A glioma, a cancerous brain tumor that is most often fatal, develops in a similar way in humans and dogs. As part of a comparative medicine clinical trial, the veterinary team a...
Canine Leishmaniasis: Advances in Diagnosis and Management of the Disease in the Field
A review of published studies on canine visceral leishmaniasis focuses on current serological and molecular diagnostic methods used in epidemiological research and veterinary me...
Lyme disease: The Importance of Wildlife in the Fight Against Ticks Has Been Demonstrated
A study conducted in Kenya shows that the combined effects of declining wildlife biodiversity and climate change influence tick abundance and, consequently, the risk of disease....
Lyme disease: The Siberian chipmunk may play a role in tick-borne infections
Researchers at the Pasteur Institute have been studying tick infection in a rodent, the Siberian chipmunk, which is suspected of being a reservoir for the bacteria Borrelia burg...
Zoonosis: Leptospirosis on the Rise in France and Around the World
Nearly a century after its discovery, leptospirosis remains a neglected, poorly understood, and underestimated disease, particularly with regard to its modes of transmission, ri...
Biomedical Research: The Capabilities of the Naked Mole-Rat Fascinate the Scientific Community
Despite its unattractive appearance, the naked mole-rat (or hetercephalus) is a living enigma that fascinates researchers. Native to East Africa, this small rodent—with hairless...