Cats are hunters by nature, which is why it's not uncommon for an outdoor cat to bring home a "gift," left on their owner's doorstep.
Ecology
Oct 20, 2023
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Ticks are obligate blood-sucking vectors for multiple zoonotic diseases. In a new study published in Zoonoses, tick samples were collected from Yunnan Province, China, which is well-known as a global biodiversity hotspot. ...
Ecology
Aug 3, 2023
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COVID-19 has killed 7 million people worldwide so far. The novel coronavirus that causes it is widely believed to have jumped from animals to humans at a market selling live animals in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Now the ...
Veterinary medicine
Jul 20, 2023
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Researchers who found novel coronaviruses in UK bats say genetic surveys of the viruses should be regularly conducted, even if none of those viruses can infect humans yet.
Ecology
Jun 27, 2023
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Over the past 20 years, coronaviruses in wild bat populations have led to three major disease outbreaks in humans: SARS in 2002, MERS in 2012 and COVID-19. The latter triggered an ongoing global pandemic. In turn, this has ...
Ecology
Apr 3, 2023
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As tick season kicks in across the country, the executive director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEWVEC) and his team have completed research that ...
Ecology
Mar 30, 2023
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Countries in the Horn of Africa have been hit by a multiyear drought. Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda are expected to continue getting below-normal rainfall in 2023. Excluding Uganda, 36.4 million people are affected ...
Environment
Mar 14, 2023
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Researchers have shown how sounds recorded by low-cost microphones could be used to help track infectious disease risks in the rainforest and in other rapidly changing landscapes.
Ecology
Feb 27, 2023
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The United States, the largest importer of wildlife in the world, is not prepared for future spread of animal-borne, or zoonotic, diseases due to gaps among governmental agencies designed to combat these threats, concludes ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 16, 2023
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More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman, Montana, are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic.
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2023
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