Area of Focus: Disease

A simple brick and greenhouse setup helps Australian amphibians ward off and build resistance to deadly disease

Trained dogs may be able to detect a CWD infection in wild and captive cervids

Two studies suggest the communication behavior in deer can facilitate the spread of chronic wasting disease

Researchers wondered if artificial ponds there attracted species that host the virus

Raccoons, opossums and eastern cottontails were among the commonly infected species in Virginia

Dry conditions may lead to “overwhelming” numbers of trematodes in amphibians

A female 40-year-old received an mRNA vaccine against a herpesvirus

Biologists note first Texas case in tricolored bats

Biologists are using modified mosquitoes to reduce deadly avian malaria

The oral vaccine is intended to protect deer from bovine tuberculosis