By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

Tuberculosis is killing this zoo's lemurs—but it hasn't closed Visitors have been photographed holding animals at the Madagascar zoo. Its lemurs likely caught the disease from humans.

There's no clear "best sniffer" in the animal kingdom, but one contender is the Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus, a species of African pouched rat), which can be trained to smell landmines ...

New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Bovine tuberculosis (TB) has been confirmed in South Dakota for the first time since 2021. According to State Veterinarian Dr. Beth Thompson, the infected steer was… ...

Michigan has the only persisting bovine tuberculosis outbreak in wild deer anywhere in the U.S. — and it occasionally spills over to cattle farms.

These wild animals are also known carriers of multiple diseases such as rabies, tuberculosis, and leptospirosis, which they ...

This article was originally published with the title “Tuberculosis in Animals” inSA Supplements Vol. 47 No. 1207supp(February 1899), p. 19356doi:10.1038/scientificamerican02181899-19356supp ...

So tuberculosis posed a danger "both through being a direct health risk and decimating prey animal populations," Lee and colleagues wrote in the other new study.

Bovine tuberculosis has been confirmed in a Michigan cattle herd for the first time since 2022.