Scientists at La Trobe University have discovered a previously unknown way viruses could spread around the body, potentially ...

Among bats, these pathogens spread even more because many species live in highly social colonies. Taken together, this means ...

Let's face it—bats get a bad rap. Their links to disease outbreaks and their spooky association with vampires influence their ...

Zoonotic diseases, like COVID-19, malaria, and rabies, are illnesses that can spread from animals to people and vice versa.

As the world’s climate warms, parasite-carried wildlife diseases will move north, with animals in cold far-north and high-altitude regions expected to suffer the most dramatic increases, warns a study ...

Objective Certain leading medical organisations are considering alternatives to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a predictor of the risk for non-communicable chronic disease (NCD) or death. Our objective ...

A communicable disease is one spread from person to person through direct or indirect contact. A number of respiratory viruses (which cause cold-like symptoms) and gastrointestinal agents (causing ...

In the Southern Hemisphere, the adjusted flu vaccine effectiveness rates against outpatient visits and hospitalizations were 50.4% and 49.7%. Only 21.3% of flu outpatients and 15.9% of hospitalized ...

The U.S. health secretary takes exception to policies he decries as “radical gender ideology.” Some health experts contend Kennedy's decision to reject the declaration is counterintuitive to his MAHA ...

Researchers in Sweden and Finland have created the CORE model, a simple blood test that predicts liver disease risk with striking accuracy. Unlike current methods, it works for the general population ...

Introduction: Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) occurs most commonly in multi-cat environments such as animal shelters. FIP is often suspected based on compatible history, signalment, physical ...

Space Astronomers close in on comet 3I/ATLAS's origins, a strange gravity anomaly discovered off Africa and AI designs brand-new viruses Planet Earth 'Anti-aging' magic mushrooms and record-breaking ...