Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths per year. So, scientists are coming up with genetic engineering techniques that ...

Spiders are declining in livestock-grazed areas, while ticks and mites are increasing. This change affects ecosystems and ...

Vector-borne zoonotic diseases, transmitted by pathogens via arthropods like mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, comprise 17% of the global infectious disease ...

Greater monitoring of the risk of diseases spread by insects is needed in environments where animals and people coexist, say ...

Bluetongue virus risk is at a seasonal low, but producers should be ready for that to change in spring. Bluetongue virus is an insect-borne disease that ...

Replacing native grazers with livestock can drastically influence the numbers of ground-dwelling arthropods like spiders, as well as that of ticks and mites that can spread vector-borne diseases ...

A 15-year study in India's Spiti Valley revealed that replacing wild herbivores with livestock significantly affects ...

Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, ...

Soumya Swaminathan, former WHO Chief Scientist, emphasized key health challenges, including climate change and antimicrobial resistance, noting that most emerging viral threats are zoonotic ...

For clinicians, this idea can help with prevention and management of not only zoonotic infections but also antimicrobial resistance and emerging infectious diseases such as SARS-CoV-2, avian ...