Livestock grazing disrupts spider populations, potentially increasing disease risk from ticks and mites while degrading ...

Footage of an unsuspecting white-furred critter was posted on the Back Mountain Community Facebook page on February 25, with ...

It is commonly accepted that insects could possibly be a mechanical vector for transferring pathogens. Especially now larvae ...

For turkey farmer Erica Sawatzke, Thanksgiving was going terribly. It was 2023, and while others were eating their turkey ...

Eric Siegel, a Ph.D. student in microbiologist Stephen Rich’s Laboratory of Medical Zoology and at the UMass Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases (NEWVEC), has been ...

The Halifax County Health Department is notifying locals of a recent case confirmed in the area.

Support from the community and sympathy from the city council has earned an offer to negotiate an extension for local wildlife rehabilitation facility Steadfast Wildlife Rescue. In rather unusual ...

That was the same time the Washington Post ran the story “ NIH reels with fear, uncertainty about future of scientific ...

Animals such as rodents, small mammals and white-tailed deer are the reservoirs (the source) of the tick-borne disease causing agents and the blacklegged tick is the vector (the vehicle) which moves ...

Dr. Michael Fox considers the multiple contributing factors—veterinary, ethical, and environmental—underlying an integrated perspective of what One Health looks like on the ground.

“All it takes is one ... wild, it’s important to take biosecurity measures to protect domestic birds, Anderson said. As ...