Background: The life cycles of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases can be complex. This complexity makes it challenging to identify factors that confound the association between an exposure of interest and infection in one of the susceptible hosts. In epidemiology, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) can ...

The expansion of pig production is due to the intensification of the animal's breeding process. Outdoor farming systems have been replaced by intensive systems with limited space and high animal density. Due to confinement, a greater number of animals in a smaller space, in addition to greater...

Light pollution poses risks to human, animal. and environmental health. The chronodisruption linked to the lengthening of domestic lighting duration has an impact on obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans, but also in domestic cats, living in the same environment and subject to the same...

In Japan, 2 cats that underwent surgery in a room where a sick dog had been euthanized became ill within 9 days of surgery. Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus was detected in all 3 animals; nucleotide sequence identity was 100%. Suspected cause was an uncleaned pulse oximeter probe...

This special issue includes 30 articles that discuss behavior and chemical ecology, development and life history, myiasis and forensics, risk assessment and economic impact, morphology and systematics, vector control and pest management, host interactions and transmission, and vector-borne diseases.

Orbiviruses are of significant importance to the health of wildlife and domestic animals worldwide; the major orbiviruses transmitted by multiple biting midge (Culicoides) species include bluetongue virus, epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus, and African horse sickness virus. The viruses, insect...

Chagas disease is a zoonotic vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which affects a variety of mammalian species across the Americas, including humans and dogs. Mathematical modeling has been widely used to investigate the transmission dynamics and control of vector-borne...

Neosporosis was first identified in the 1980s and has since become well established as an endemic disease of cattle and a significant cause of abortion. Neospora caninum is an obligate, intracellular, protozoal parasite that relies on intermediate and definitive hosts to complete its lifecycle....

The epidemiology, prevalence, transmission, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control of Bacillus anthracis in animals and humans in the Slovak Republic and other countries are described, with emphasis on the history of its use in biological warfare.