NewsDesk @bactiman63 Last year, the Albuquerque (ABQ) BioPark Zoo lost four apes to Shigella infection. On Monday, zoo officials reported the loss of Thunder, a chimpanzee who passed away on Saturday,...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 The bacteria that causes the neglected tropical disease, Leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, was once thought to be an obligate human pathogen. However, they have been shown to be...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 A team of researchers have identified leprosy in wild chimpanzees in West Africa for the first time. The study is published in the journal, Nature. Below is the abstract: Humans...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Numerous animals may be vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, according to a large study modelling how the virus might infect different animals’ cells,...

In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation. That’s why scientists, investigating an outbreak of respiratory disease in a community...

A chimpanzee that died at a Cameroon sanctuary has tested positive for monkeypox earlier this month, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) last week. A group of 22 chimpanzees,...

No one knows exactly how it happened. It may have entered through a cut or bite wound, the blood of a chimpanzee seeping into an exposed fingertip or forearm or foot. But in the early 1900s, probably...

Infectious disease should be a key consideration in wildlife conservation, suggests a study focused on primates in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, published by PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases....

At least six chimpanzees in an enclosed sanctuary have reportedly tested positive for monkeypox, according to a recent update with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).  Of the six affected...