For the first time, scientists have recorded wild monkeys in the Amazon contracting human hepatitis B virus (HBV). The researchers warn that the situation could get much worse as deforestation brings ...

Kashi to develop Kapi-Van monkey forest near Varanasi, planting fruit and shade trees from July to reduce human-monkey ...

Guwahati: Armed forest guards with rifles now stand watch over children at a govt primary school in central Assam’s Nagaon district, after a monkey attacked five students earlier this week — leaving ...

TOKYO (AP) — People in a southwestern Japanese city have come under attack from monkeys that are trying to snatch babies, biting and clawing at flesh, and sneaking into nursery schools. The attacks — ...

More than a quarter of the rhesus macaque monkeys at a Florida state park carry the deadly herpes B virus, according to new research published in Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and ...

Fears of spreading yellow fever are behind the illegal killing of scores of monkeys in Rio de Janeiro, complicating efforts to fight the virus, authorities say. Locals, mistakenly believing that the ...