From dogs and cats to dairy cows and sea turtles, animals around the world are suffering from various cancers, obesity, diabetes, and degenerative joint disease. Understanding the forces driving an ...

Today, up to 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases originate from animal sources, posing outsized risks to livestock health, agricultural production and trade, and human security. From the ...

Human and animal health are closely linked, with many diseases shared between them. As our world becomes more developed and interconnected, the proximity between wild animals and humans is shrinking, ...

Across the planet, animals are increasingly suffering from chronic illnesses once seen only in humans. Cats, dogs, cows, and even marine life are facing rising rates of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, ...

From obesity in cats and dogs and osteoarthritis in pigs, to cancer in whales and high blood glucose in racoons, chronic diseases are increasingly becoming a concern across the animal world, a recent ...

Animal diseases have a devastating impact on livestock production. In 2022, for example, 131 million domestic poultry died or were culled as a result of avian influenza (also called “bird flu”). Yet ...

Deer, elk, and moose infected with chronic wasting disease can spread the fatal brain illness to other animals long before they show any outward sign of sickness. Infected cervids shed misfolded ...

The Black Death was one of history’s deadliest plagues. Here’s why. The Black Death was one of history’s deadliest plagues. Here’s why. Invasive ticks have scientists spooked about new diseases ...

Production animal disease outbreaks are not only animal health events but threats to economic stability and food security. A new report from The Farm Journal Foundation, The Mean Sixteen: Biosecurity ...