Bats have populated earth for approximately 52 million years, serving as natural reservoirs for a variety of viruses through the course of evolution. Transmission of highly pathogenic viruses from bats has been suspected or linked to a spectrum of potential emerging infectious diseases in humans...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has now affected over 72.5 million people worldwide, with nearly 1.6 million deaths reported globally as of December 17, 2020. SARS-CoV-2 has been implicated to have originated from bats and pangolins, and its intermediate animal hosts are being...

Respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19, present a serious threat to endangered wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) populations. In some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, chimpanzee tracking is a popular tourism activity, offering visitors a chance to view apes in their natural habitats. Chimpanzee...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health challenge with substantial adverse effects on the world economy. It is beyond any doubt that it is, again, a call-to-action to minimize the risk of future zoonoses caused by emerging human pathogens. The primary response to contain ...

We are in unprecedented times with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has impacted public health, the economy and our society on a global scale. In addition, the impacts of COVID-19 permeate into our environment and wildlife as well. Here, we discuss the essential role of wastewater...

The disease COVID-19 that becomes pandemic worldwide is caused by a new coronavirus called SARS- CoV-2. The coronaviruses create a large group of enveloped single-stranded RNA viruses. Some cause respiratory infections in humans, while others cause disease in certain species of animals, such as i;...

Millions of people are suffering from the repeated emergence of zoonotic diseases across the globe. The latest pandemic of Covid-19 suspected to be originated from wild animals and was transmitted via an intermediate animal host to humans. Possibilities of the intentional use of zoonoses as...

Human health is increasingly interconnected with that of the animals in the environment they share, while the threat of emerging diseases arising at that interface increases as a result of the multiple and growing driving forces which propitiate that greater human-animalenvironmental...

Postmortem and histological tests recently confirmed pathogenic squirrelpox in a Gwynedd red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris). The animal was found dead at a coastal location close to woodland where an earlier outbreak had been reported in 2017. However, with the current 2020 Covid-19 restrictions in...