The Nile crocodile is one of the most fearsome predators in the world, sitting at the top of the food chain within its habitat. But every so often a specimen pushes the dimensional boundaries of what ...

DENVER - A wolf, a reindeer, a goose and a swan that lived at the Denver Zoo have succumbed to West Nile virus. The mosquito borne illness can also be fatal in humans. Dr. Jeff Baier said the wolf ...

West Nile virus emerged in North America in 1999. Historically, this virus spanned Africa, the Middle East and much of India and Australia. West Nile virus was traditionally associated with mild ...

A Western Massachusetts man has become the state’s first confirmed human case of West Nile virus and a horse exposed in Plymouth County is the state’s first confirmed animal case of Eastern equine ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo. — The first horse with West Nile virus here in Colorado was euthanized late last month – since then 10 more horses were diagnosed. The Denver Department of Public Health said late ...

A string of recent reports of people falling ill and dying of diseases that spread to people from animals might have you wondering: Are animal-borne diseases on the rise? This summer, three people ...

A Washington State University lab is keeping busy this fall studying the effects of West Nile Virus on animals. Right now the U.S. is in the midst of a record-breaking year for West Nile Virus ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – The Texas Department of State Health Services reported a second human case of West Nile virus in Potter County, with at least 29 instances of confirmed virus activity in ...

Model organisms are essential for biomedical research and have enabled many important scientific discoveries. The ability to sequence the genomes of these models is a powerful tool to study the ...

Horse owners in Connecticut are urged to vaccinate their horses against eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus. The state Department of Agriculture said the mosquito-borne diseases affect ...