Different types of disease may interact ... Other risk factors are linked but not proven. Some diseases, their effects and their risk factors are shown in the table below.

Diseases caused by pathogens are called communicable diseases. This means the disease can be transferred from an infected organism to another organism. There are other types of disease which ...

These zoonotic diseases are known as “spillover events” when they enter the human population ... analyzing historic trends for four distinct types of viruses: Filoviruses (such as Ebola ...

Zoonotic pathogens very likely caused the last pandemic. Can we get better at halting them before the next one?

Many are linked with human infections ... was found to harbour 351 types of bacteria. The blowfly, which is found in warmer climates, carried 316. A large number of these bacteria were carried ...