In 2019, a big outbreak of avian influenza struck Namibia’s endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) population. The IAEA-FAO’s sequencing service was able to help characterize the outbreak as ...

This form of immunity is non discriminatory; it is not directed against specific pathogens, but just about anything that enters the body that is foreign. Vertebrates have another more sophisticated ...

Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example, crossed over from chimpanzees. And many experts ...

Animals, as cute as some of them may be, can be a source of illness for humans. These so-called zoonotic diseases can originate from bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi. In fact, most infectious ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A global study mapping human diseases that come from animals like tuberculosis, AIDS, bird flu or Rift Valley fever has found that just 13 such diseases are responsible for 2.4 ...

The patient showed no sign of rejecting the genetically modified organ, but suffered numerous complications before dying. By Roni Caryn Rabin Traces of a virus known to infect pigs were found in a ...