Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Identifying and prioritizing the many unknown viruses circulating in animals is an important part of modeling future pandemic risk ...

Decades of data reveal that animals involved in the wildlife trade—from pet sales to meat markets to illegal poaching—are ...

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (pink) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (green), isolated from a patient sample. (National Institute of Allergy and ...

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

Hedgehogs, elephants, pangolins, bears or fennec foxes: many wild species are sold as pets, hunting trophies, for traditional ...

Researchers have identified DNA from a virus that circulates widely in farmed shrimp and shellfish inside the eye tissues of ...

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

The Atlantic Forest, extending along Brazil’s eastern coast, was once among the most biodiverse ecosystems globally.

Amid an outbreak of avian influenza, aka bird flu, that has spread to cows in nine states and one person in Texas, federal regulators have detected traces of the bird flu virus in pasteurized milk.

There’s an entire world of microbiomes living just under our noses. Although we can’t see them, bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms are as much a part of our daily lives as the air we breathe.