According to a 2022 World Bank estimate, preventing a pandemic would cost approximately US$11 billion per year, while ...

Analysis - The world is facing daunting health challenges with the rise of zoonotic diseases - infections that are transmissible from animals to humans. These diseases - which include Ebola, avian flu ...

Across the world, natural history museums hold about 3 billion specimens of plants and animals in collections—and these ...

Socioeconomic factors may be a driving force behind the emergence and spread of animal-borne disease outbreaks, according to ...

Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to ...