animal diseases

Surveillance networks set up to detect outbreaks among pets could one day have public health uses too.  

When conservationists relocate species, they don’t always account for the pathogens hitching a ride, and the consequences of introducing them to a new environment.

A study proposes that habitat for bats—and their accompanying coronaviruses—has increased in southern Asia over the last century, but experts debate the reliability of the analysis.

A new study suggests that the plague, which killed millions of people, was not transmitted by rats.

In the planet’s warming and acidifying oceans, species from corals to lobsters and fish are succumbing to pathogenic infection.

A study suggests bats in Asia could have genes that protect them from the fungal infection that is decimating bat populations in North America.

Researchers at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., are studying a viral infection that can be lethal to elephant calves.