The things you do for your beloved pets can also lure local rodents and insects to your property as they do enjoy the same ...

Washington, D.C., is launching a rat birth control program to lower the rodent population in the city. The pilot program is ...

A study finds that 41% of traded mammal species share at least one pathogen with humans, compared with just 6.4% of species ...

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...

This Nature Communications review argues that rat hepatitis E virus is an emerging zoonotic cause of hepatitis that is likely ...

Wildlife trade disease risk is growing, with traded animals more likely to share infectious diseases with humans ...

New evidence suggests that a disease-causing tapeworm that has been spreading across the United States and Canada has arrived ...

People sell wild animals for food and for traditional medicine — legally and illegally. A study looks at the risks of ...

Flea-borne typhus is related to another similar bacteria responsible for plagues that devastated populations in world history ...

Los Angeles health officials report a significant rise in flea-borne typhus cases, urging residents to take precautions to ...