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Almost half of traded wildlife carry disease-causing pathogens

Nearly half of wild mammal species traded carry pathogens that can infect humans, linking wildlife trade to major disease outbreaks.

Public health

fromFodors Travel Guide

4 months ago

This Is Actually the Grossest Thing You Can Do on a Plane

In-flight skincare routines increase exposure to pathogens through contaminated cabin water and frequent face-touching.

Science

fromenglish.elpais.com

8 months ago

Oldest known bacterial DNA found in a mammoth that lived more than a million years ago

Ancient DNA from mammoth remains reveals preserved oral and internal bacteria, including pathogen relatives that could have caused lethal infections in mammoths and modern elephants.

Science

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

9 months ago

Did Disease Defeat Napoleon?

New research suggests pathogens, not just environmental factors, contributed significantly to Napoleon's army death toll during the 1812 Russian campaign.

fromNature

10 months ago

The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia - Nature

Pathogens have been a constant threat to human health throughout our evolutionary history. Infectious diseases are estimated to have been responsible for more than half of all children deaths before age 15.