Researchers have identified the genetic material of scarlet fever while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull ...

People sell wild animals for food and for traditional medicine — legally and illegally. A study looks at the risks of ...

LONDON/GENEVA, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The Trump administration wants countries that receive U.S. health aid to share data with Washington about pathogens that could spark epidemics as a condition of the ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. In past decades, numerous emerging infectious diseases have markedly affected global health and social-economic development. Consequently, ...

Vaccines are an important part of medical care because they can protect you from future illness or can make the severity of the illness much less serious. There are six types. Vaccination is the ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia. By Carl Zimmer To prepare for future pandemics, scientists look to the past for clues.

Two Chinese citizens were charged with a conspiracy and smuggling of a fungus that officials said is a “dangerous biological pathogen” into the United States. Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that they planned to study at a University of Michigan lab last summer, a complaint filed Tuesday says. Yunqing Jian, 33, and ...

A Chinese researcher in Michigan and her boyfriend have been charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that “can cause devastating diseases in crops” into the United States, according to federal ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...