A substantial species barrier prevents chronic wasting disease (CWD), a cervid prion disease with unknown zoonotic potential, from being transmitted to humans, new NIH data suggested. Healthy human ...

The NIH's Centre for Disease Control has issued a dengue advisory warning that the disease burden is rising annually, urging ...

A team of researchers at University College London has reported the first-ever clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of Alzheimer’s disease. Across a handful of extraordinarily rare case ...

Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their resources to investigate the potential of vector-borne transmission of Chagas ...

Though the researchers are not sure about the causes of the different epidemiological patterns, cats could play a role. In epidemiology, confounding factors influence disease transmission indirectly.

Early-onset dementia symptoms in five adults may be connected to a now-discontinued human growth hormone medical treatment that they received decades ago as children, a new study suggests. The study, ...

Thanks to decades of successful vector control strategies, vector-borne transmission of Chagas disease has significantly decreased in many regions. Oral ingestion of Trypanosoma cruzi through ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the “Columbian exchange,” much ...

Health officials in Alaska recently reported the first known human death from a virus called Alaskapox. The man, who died in January, lived in a wooded area and cared for a stray cat that hunted small ...