One Health
A new method could be used by biologists to estimate the prevalence of disease in free-ranging wildlife and help determine how many samples are needed to detect a disease This is important because wildlife agencies often lack the financial and labor resources to...
Some 220 flamingos have been found dead in the province of Catamarca in northwestern Argentina due to an outbreak of avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, an official told local media Bird flu is a highly contagious and deadly viral disease that naturally...
Wildfire smoke blankets swaths of the continent Heatwaves break historic records Diseases like dengue and malaria emerge and re-emerge To combat these threats, there is an urgent need to strengthen the public health workforce — and Cornell University’s Master of...
An analysis of beeswax in managed honeybee hives in New York finds a wide variety of insecticide, herbicide and fungicide residues, exposing current and future generations of bees to long-term toxicity The study, “Pesticide Contamination of Beeswax from Managed...
Better education for cat owners, more communication from veterinarians, increased drug choices and cheaper, rapid diagnostic tools can help improve antimicrobial use in cats, which has important implications for rising antimicrobial resistance in animals and humans,...
When two dogs imported to Canada from Iran on separate occasions in 2021 developed deadly canine rabies, alarm bells rang loudly for public health officials They scrambled to trace dozens of people who may have been in contact with the animals' saliva to give...
Chronic wasting disease — which affects deer, elk and moose — continues to spread throughout the Great Plains and Midwest Just this year, authorities in western Oklahoma detected the state’s first case in a free-ranging deer After about 40 years of...
In September 2020, an American black bear cub was treated in the Janet L Swanson Wildlife Hospital after being hit a car Six days later, the cub was sent to a rehabilitation center and then released to the wild This could have been the end of the story, except that...
The health and economic impacts from infectious disease emergence are substantial Pathogens that are transmitted, or spill over, between animals and people are the source of most emerging infectious diseases in humans Indeed, spillovers sparked five viral pandemics...
Cyprus is home to 1 million or so free-roaming cats that wander its streets, parks, and even luxury resorts They are about as numerous as people So when a deadly cat outbreak began sweeping across the Mediterranean island this year, the humans quickly noticed...
By this point, the evidence is clear: The Covid-19 pandemic can be traced back to a bat virus The same was true for the 2003 SARS coronavirus outbreak In such outbreaks, we are unlikely to be able to determine whether the spillover happened because someone ate or...
