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Cities Overrun: Rats as Indicators of a Global Crisis
Urbanization, climate change, silent proliferation: an urban scourge is taking hold across the globe. From the sewers of Paris to the streets of New York, from the canals of Ams...
Rabies: First Effective Single-Dose Treatment for Symptomatic Disease
Infections with the rabies virus and related lyssaviruses are generally fatal once the virus reaches the central nervous system and the first symptoms appear. A study tested a t...
Climate and leishmaniasis: Horses May Be a Major Reservoir for the Parasite
Leishmaniasis is a zoonosis considered endemic in the Mediterranean region. The infection is transmitted through the bites of sandflies infected with Leishmania infantum . Altho...
Emerging zoonoses: The risk of a pandemic is correlated with host characteristics
Why do diseases transmitted by bats—which are the natural hosts of several viruses—result in higher mortality rates in humans than zoonoses spread by other animals? To answer th...
Lyme disease: What if the Solution Lay in the Blood of the White-tailed Deer?
Like many vertebrate hosts, particularly in wildlife, the white-tailed deer can be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi . However, this animal is considered an incompetent reservo...
When Research on Canine Cancers Benefits Human Medicine
Given the difficulty of studying the development of certain human diseases, research sometimes turns to so-called animal models—ranging from zebrafish to chimpanzees. This raise...