In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...

Four unvaccinated Kentuckians have contracted the highly contagious measles, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services ...

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Agencies such as the CDC and the World Health Organization classify diseases as being predominantly spread by large particles or small particles; COVID-19 is believed to spread primarily through ...

As global temperatures rise, the spread of infectious diseases is rapidly evolving in unexpected ways. That’s something that Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud thinks about a lot. A physician-scientist ...

Bird flu swept through the duck farm rapidly — 800 ducks died on the first day. Within two days, 5,000 had died. A few days later, the entire 50,000-bird flock was culled to contain the outbreak.

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Mpox is what is known as a zoonotic disease, which means it infects some animals as well as humans.Prior to the 2022 outbreak, most cases involved a person coming into contact with an infected animal, ...

After four years of fighting about it, the World Health Organization has finally proclaimed that viruses, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID, can be spread through the air. The ...