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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...