Tag: wildlife disease

Snake fungal disease is a troubling issue for reptile biologists who have focused increased attention on the illness over the past decade or so. But while researchers have published a...

What’s making the latest strain of bird flu so deadly? Avian influenza used to mostly affect poultry, and while it continues to decimate poultry populations around the world, the latest...

As gruesome as they may appear, vultures provide a vital ecosystem service. If they didn’t specialize in tearing into carcasses, the diseases and parasites that inhabit rotting flesh could hang...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has announced a $9.4 million injection of funds to manage the spread of chronic wasting disease—an illness that’s deadly...

As its name suggests, there’s nothing unusual about monkeypox appearing in animal species. But scientists are worried that as the virus spreads around the world, it could find reservoirs in...

Ibex have developed a resistance to sarcoptic mange after long-term exposure to the disease in the Iberian Peninsula. The first recent cases of sarcoptic mange were reported in the region...

Wildlife managers looking to prevent widespread losses of bats to white-nose syndrome need to treat the fungal disease early and intensely. White-nose syndrome, a deadly disease caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus...

A new database provides researchers a central place to see what species have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans. This information can be useful for scientists...

COVID-19 almost certainly passed to humans in a Wuhan wildlife market at the end of 2019, according to a pair of new studies published in Science that used Chinese samples...

Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say avian flu is responsible for an unusually high number of seal deaths along the coast of Maine. The USDA’s Animal and...