Zoonotic diseases, like COVID-19, malaria, and rabies, are illnesses that can spread from animals to people and vice versa.

Chickens are able to pass bird flu to humans. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Avian flu, mad cow disease, hantavirus, black plague and other notorious ailments originated with animals and made the ...

There are way more bats than you might think. Second only to rodents, bats make up around a fifth of all mammals, with over 1 ...

New research reveals how ancient pathogens, including plague and leprosy, entered human populations over 37,000 years.

Diseases started jumping from animals to humans at least 6,500 years ago, researchers found in a new study of ancient DNA. After analyzing ancient DNA from 1,313 prehistoric humans from Europe and ...

A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

Around 6,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities across Eurasia were settling down and living with livestock — and the animals’ diseases came along for the ride. A massive genomic analysis of ...

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted to humans through the bite of infected ticks. It can cause fever, fatigue, ...

Since 2013, "kissing bugs" have been reported in 31 states. In eight of these states, humans were reported to have ...

Megin Nichols, the CDC’s director in the division of foodborne, waterborne and environmental diseases, explains the ties ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

Animals considered powerful and ferocious, like lions, tigers, and leopards living in Gorakhpur Zoo, have now fallen prey to ...