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

More than 40% of traded mammal species share at least one pathogen with humans, compared with only 6% of non-traded mammals.

Hedgehogs, elephants, pangolins, bears or fennec foxes: many wild species are sold as pets, hunting trophies, for traditional ...

Decades of data reveal that animals involved in the wildlife trade—from pet sales to meat markets to illegal poaching—are ...

When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Warmer temperatures are impacting the food supply and its safety, experts warned amid an outbreak of E. coli that has struck McDonald's Quarter Pounders. Experts said pathogens—the ...

Pathogenic bacteria often delay the activation of their virulence program until they are inside the host. Researchers have ...

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Some pathogens use temperature as a trigger and activate virulence only after entering the warmer environment of a host. A ...

Particles of plastic float in the ocean. Microplastics are able to carry pathogens from land to parts of the ocean they would normally never reach, a UC Davis study found. (Getty) Microplastics are a ...