Definition: A pathogen is a biological agent – such as a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite or prion – that can cause disease in a host organism. In simple terms: a pathogen is an infectious microbe ...

Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the University of Liverpool, the University of Edinburgh and elsewhere have traced how diverse strains of a common pathogenic ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed the need to better understand the transmission routes of animal-spread diseases. A study published in Nature Communications demonstrates how the risk of pathogen ...

Wildlife trade, which concerns a quarter of all mammal species, increases the chances of pathogen transmission between animals and humans. As the exchange of animals might suggest, humans interact ...

Explore how a biopreparedness map can strengthen special pathogens readiness, mass gathering planning, and frontline outbreak ...

While it’s understandable to focus on the diseases affecting humans, it’s important to study how our illnesses may affect animals. When infectious microbes repeatedly replicate in different animal ...

A little-known bacterium - a distant cousin of the microbes that cause tuberculosis and leprosy - is emerging as a public health threat capable of causing severe lung infections among vulnerable ...

A Perspective review in npj Science of Food argues that pandemics can weaken food safety systems even when the pathogen is ...