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Vaccination: The Impact of Anti-Vaxxers on the Health Status of Pets
A study conducted in the United States shows a link between pet vaccination coverage and owners’ attitudes toward vaccines for human health. People who are hesitant to get vacci...
Growing up on a farm is good for the microbiota and may also help protect against allergies
Growing up on a farm promotes exposure to a variety of microorganisms, which is beneficial for the development of a young child’s gut microbiota and may help prevent certain all...
Research on abortion in mares sheds light on the causes of miscarriages in women
A study conducted at Cornell University offers a new perspective on the causes of early pregnancy loss in both horses and humans. Researchers found that a significant proportion...
Climate Change: What Impact Does It Have on Viral Diseases in Fish?
Already weakened by human activities and the overall degradation of their environment, wild marine fish populations are already bearing the full brunt of climate change’s impact...
From mad cow disease to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's: What do we know about prion diseases?
Research on scrapie in sheep conducted in the 1970s led to the discovery of a new type of infectious agent: prions. Initially met with skepticism, the existence of these harmful...
Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus in the United States: How Serious Is the Threat?
In the United States, health authorities have closed several public parks and issued warnings to the public following the death of a New Hampshire resident who had been infected...
Why We'll Have to Share More and More Space with Wild Animals
Coexistence between humans and wildlife is expected to increase across more than half of the world’s land area by 2070. The primary driver of this trend is human population grow...
Exposure to cigarette smoke increases the risk of cancer in dogs
A study of Scottish Terriers shows that exposure to secondhand smoke is associated with bladder cancer in dogs. The results highlight the importance of preventing this exposure...
Autism: Having a Pet Is Good for Children and Their Families
According to the World Health Organization, one in 100 children is currently diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This disorder causes varying degrees of difficulty...
Dilated cardiomyopathy: the same risk factors in Dobermans and humans
A study reveals that the genes responsible for this heart disease in humans and Doberman Pinschers are similar. Thus, the canine genome shares more similarities with the human g...
Disasters: The Urgency of Creating an Animal Management Plan in Light of Their Recurrence
Disasters—whether natural or man-made—have always existed, and animals generally pay a heavy price. This summer has once again highlighted the importance of thinking ahead about...
Persistent Pollutants: Dogs and Horses as Indicators of PFAS Exposure
The University of North Carolina identified high levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the blood of 31 dogs and 32 horses tested in a U.S. state know...
Cancer in Dogs: Age at Diagnosis Is Related to Breed, Weight, and Sex
A study involving more than 3,000 dogs with cancer suggests that screening should be routine starting at age 7—or even as early as age 4 for certain breeds. In fact, large-breed...
Dogs can literally sense our stress
Dogs share a long history with our species, which gives them an amazing ability to interpret the signals we send them. They also possess an incredible sense of smell, which allo...
American foulbrood: Toward a Vaccine to Protect Bees
An efficacy study shows that bees born to queens vaccinated against American foulbrood are more resistant than those from hives whose queens are not vaccinated. This vaccination...
Microplastic Pollution: Serious Consequences for Animal Health… and Human Health
The seventh continent has become infamous in recent years. It consists largely of five plastic gyres scattered around the world. The consequences for marine flora and fauna are...
The lifespan of bees in the United States is 50 percent shorter than it was in the 1970s
A new factor may explain the decline in honey production and the loss of honeybee bee colonies over the past five decades. Scientists have been investigating the causes of these...
Daylight saving time leads to excess mortality among wildlife
A study published a few days after the switch to standard time highlights the negative effects of such a time shift on road safety. Maintaining daylight saving time year-round w...
Myxomatosis: When Viruses Become More Deadly Over Time
The course of myxomatosis in rabbits has often been cited as an example to demonstrate that a virus becomes less virulent when it becomes endemic within a population. This is kn...
Influenza A: Transmission of the H1N1 influenza virus between pigs and farmers has been confirmed
A study by the University of Minnesota conducted a risk assessment of interspecies transmission of the influenza A virus from pigs to farmworkers. The findings regarding the spr...
Will insects really be the food of the future?
Tom Bry-Chevalier , University of Lorraine When discussing the food of the future, one topic regularly pops up in the media: the consumption of insects. “Food of the Future: Ins...
Do Digital Technology and Agroecology Go Hand in Hand? The Case of Livestock Farming
Stéphane Ingrand , INRAE Contrary to popular belief, farmers in France own, on average, more digital devices than the rest of the population . Specifically, 67% of them own a de...
Extreme heat waves threaten bee fertility and cause sudden bee deaths
Alison McAfee , University of British Columbia In June 2021, temperatures exceeded 42 °C for several days in Western Canada. The town of Lytton, British Columbia, even reached 4...
Octopuses are intelligent: it would be unethical to farm them
An aquaculture project to farm octopuses in the Canary Islands would produce 3,000 metric tons of octopuses per year , which means that nearly 275,000 individuals would be kille...