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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...