The past few decades have seen the emergence of several diseases with drastic public health and economic consequences. Understanding routes of pathogen emergence and transmission is critical to ...

We share the world with myriad creatures from microbes to plants, and it’s been said that we are all connected. In recent years, scientists have shown just how much of an impact microbes can have on ...

A public health expert explains why tick-borne diseases are on the rise, what they are, and how to keep yourself and loved ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic diseases began spreading around 6,500 years ...

The new case concerns green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) in The Gambia acquiring Staphylococcus aureus bacteria from close contact with humans. The research is important because it suggests fluidity ...

A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases, helping researchers zero ...