A comprehensive assessment of scientific literature has uncovered empirical evidence that more than 58% of human diseases caused by pathogens, such as dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria, Zika and ...

More than 40% of traded mammal species share at least one pathogen with humans, compared with only 6% of non-traded mammals.

Live animal markets and the illegal sale of wildlife pose particular dangers, but any sale of wild animals or animal products ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with climate scientist Camilo Mora on what impact climate change is having on pathogenic diseases. We often talk about the impact climate change will have on us in big, ...

Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like plague, our new research shows.

Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like plague, our new research shows.

The research was published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine. It included human brain tissue analysis and longitudinal clinical data that supported the in vivo mouse model data. “Our ...

An international team of researchers have, for the first time, identified the bacterium behind scarlet fever in a pre-Columbian mummy in Bolivia. By reconstructing the genome of this centuries-old ...

Everyone knows rats, bats, mold and mosquitoes can make people sick, but a new study out this week concludes such pathogens and hundreds more are made worse by the warming world. A group of University ...

The results of a large biobank study by Mount Sinai researchers could one day help clinicians better assess the true risk of disease associated with pathogenic variants. The study, headed by Ron Do, ...

An international group led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have ...