A startling new case of zoonosis in the UK has brought pandemic fears roaring back into the forefront as officials mull the possibility of diseases passing between species. The Mirror revealed this ...

Did you know that H1N1 reached Russia by whale? Or that you can get the flu from a bird and give it to a pig? Find out why viruses tend to jump from animals to us, and why they seem to always pick the ...

The exchange of microbes between humans and animals — zoonoses — began to fascinate me nearly 20 years ago, when I was studying wild primate populations. There are a remarkable number of zoonotic ...

Dr S Sriram of ICMR-NIRT said that there is a possibility and evidence of Tuberculosis transmission from animals to humans and vice versa. Reverse Zoonosis in Tuberculosis: A group of researchers have ...

A first instance of reverse Zoonosis of tuberculosis has been found in India recently. After screening almost 162 cattle in four farms around the city of Chennai, 20 of the cattle were detected with ...

Chennai: Researchers at Tamil Nadu's National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) found instances of reverse zoonosis (human-to-animal and ...

Zoonoses are diseases transmitted to humans from animals. Animals infected with bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungal infections can pass their infectious agent onto humans through bites or skin ...

HYDERABAD: Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL), one of India's leading biotechnology companies dedicated to manufacturing and supplying life-saving vaccines, commemorated World Zoonoses Day on July ...