Half-a-dozen diseases are still at "high" levels nationwide, data shared with Newsweek by WastewaterSCAN shows.

Animals sold in the wildlife trade are 50 per cent more likely to share at least one disease with humans, according to a ...

The pathogen was found in California in 2000 and has been steadily spreading east. Sudden oak death infects the bark of otherwise healthy oaks in their prime. It destroys the tissue inside the tree ...

Sampling for ticks on Cary Institute’s campus. For more than three decades, Cary researchers have been investigating how environmental factors influence Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. As part of ...

The global wildlife trade – especially in illegal and live-animal markets – is fueling the spread of diseases from animals to humans, according to a new study. The findings show that traded mammals ...

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A devastating pest that has killed tens of millions of oak trees in California was discovered for the first time in Minnesota, researchers announced this week. The “sudden oak death” pathogen, which ...