Study reveals potential new disease threats for wild snow leopards

(Taylor& Francis Group) The first study to investigate disease threats to wild snow leopards has detected that exposure to infections may pose a threat to this highly vulnerable species, as well as local people and their livestock.The results of the study, published in Infection Ecology& Epidemiology, detected antibodies in the blood of wild cats to important pathogens that can also infect humans and other species.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news