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The Cantacuzino National Institute for Medical-Military Research confirmed on Thursday evening, July 10, two cases of anthrax ...
Large scavengers like vultures and hyenas do an important job in protecting human health. But studies show these creatures ...
The combination of climate change and pathogen expansion could be fueling a surge in infectious diseases. GEN consulted ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) actively responds to anthrax epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...
MOSCOW. July 9 (Interfax) - Russia's consumer wellbeing watchdog Rospotrebnadzor is following the situation in Kazakhstan where a quarantine was imposed in two settlements over an outbreak of anthrax, ...
Scavengers often get a bad rap — hyena giggles are nefarious, crows gather in “murders” and the naked necks of vultures speak for themselves. But the bodies of the dead don’t just disappear.
In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...
A recent study shows that top scavengers, like hyenas, can be beneficial for human health. But the same study reveals that scavenger populations are declining and could mean more disease for humans.
More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...
Europe isn’t just at risk of the direct effects of climate change, it is also exposed to the indirect effects of infectious ...
When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.
Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their ...