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H1N1 ("swine flu"), SARS, mad cow disease, and HIV/AIDS are a few examples of zoonotic diseases-diseases transmitted between humans and animals. Zoonotic diseases are a growing concern given multiple ...

Zoonotic diseases remain a major global health concern, accounting for over 60% of emerging infectious pathogens that impact both human and animal ...

Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, hyperaware that pathogens can jump from animals to humans at any moment, ...

Overall Count and Share for 'National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), CDC' based on the 12-month time frame mentioned above. Note: Articles may be assigned to more than ...

In a recent study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers use geospatial models based on published data and demographic and ecological drivers of bushmeat activity to ...

Multiple zoonotic diseases have impacted public health, peoples’ livelihoods, and the global economy in the last few decades. The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent severe threat, which will have a ...

In mid-December 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially certified the end of the Ebola outbreak that had affected residents of the Beni Health Zone in North Kivu Province, Democratic ...

BAY ISMOYO / AFP via Getty Images Cases of monkeypox are on the rise in the U.S., with about 67,600 global cases, including about 25,500 in the U.S. Simultaneously, the world is still facing a ...

Infectious disease researchers have identified Pteropine orthoreovirus (PRV), an emerging bat-borne orthoreovirus, in archived throat swab samples and virus cultures from five patients in Bangladesh ...