India is ahead of several countries in drafting a legal framework to support the implementation of the 'One Health' initiative, which integ...

India is currently dealing with an outbreak of the Nipah virus, a rare virus that spreads from animals to humans and causes a deadly fever....

Federally-funded program to research exotic viruses and pathogens DEEP VZN terminated. What the program was all about and why some lawmaker...

"It will strengthen India's One Health approach, which recognizes that people and animals are connected with their shared environment," Wor...

Climate change is also affecting recurring events in nature, such as when trees blossom, or birds migrate. Climate change has important con...

A zoonosis (plural zoonoses) is a disease or infection transmitted from vertebrate animals to people, and vice versa. The pathogens involve...

"We need to continue to push until we get the answer," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, referring to the search for the origins o...

WHO said so far less than 200 sequences are available from about 14 countries, and many of these are from India.

This is especially true for Africa and Asia, continents that have been hotspots for deadly disease spread from humans to animals or vice ve...

He made the remarks while virtually inaugurating the Whole Genome Sequencing National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance (AM...

Around 18 officers, over 120 junior commissioned officers (JCOs) and other ranks have been deployed in specially created COVID-19 facilitie...

A year after the first cluster was detected in Wuhan, they will travel to China for the first time on a mission expected to last between fi...

Scientists from universities of Cambridge and Oxford Brookes in the UK have reviewed the latest evidence gleaned from pathogen genomes and ...

A world-first study found that just ten diseases account for around 50 per cent of all published knowledge on diseases at the wildlife-live...

Tourists are endangering their health and safety by interacting with elephants that are not screened for any zoonotic diseases, with no vac...

For the study, Brown University researchers analysed more than 12,000 outbreaks affecting 44 million people worldwide over the last 33 year...

India, China, and sub-Saharan Africa are the regions where incidences of the deadly emerging diseases like HIV/AIDS and SARS have increased...