A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

New study maps hotspots of human-animal infectious diseases and emerging disease outbreaks. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 29, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 07 / 120705133843.htm ...

It’s not just your imagination. Providing the first-ever definitive proof, a team of scientists has shown that emerging infectious diseases such as HIV, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS ...

Emerging Infectious Diseases On The Rise: Tropical Countries Predicted As Next Hot Spot. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 02 / 080220132611.htm ...

Some of the world’s worst diseases – think Ebola or AIDS – start in animals, jump the hurdle of species to enter humans and then get passed from person to person. These are called zoonotic ...

Over the past 60 years, the number of new diseases cropping up in a decade has almost quadrupled. "We're in a hyperinfectious world," says one scientist.

For infectious disease experts, the most terrifying aspect of their job is the unpredictability of emerging infectious diseases. When Anthony Fauci first took the job as the director of the ...

A new global study mapping human-animal diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and Rift Valley fever finds that an "unlucky" 13 zoonoses are responsible for 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 ...

It also updates a map of emerging disease events published in the science journal Nature in 2008 by Jones et al. 1 Remarkably, some 60 percent of all human diseases and 75 percent of all emerging ...