Two UC San Diego professors, writing in the academic journal Microbial Physiology, document numerous examples of viral diseases transmitted by eating animals. They suggest that the occurrence of cross-species viral epidemics can be substantially reduced by shifting to a more vegetarian diet.

Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, who helped discover the Ebola virus in 1976, is warning that more zoonotic diseases will emerge if the present pace of deforestation continues.

Denmark, one of the largest fur producers in the world, plans to kill every mink in the country to contain a coronavirus mutation that had begun spreading back to humans.

Martha Nelson, who studies viruses at the National Institutes of Health, says that if we’re really serious about preventing a future pandemic, we also need to look closer to home.

A strain of coronavirus that has recently alarmed the swine industry could spread to humans, research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests.

A Biblical story from the Book of Numbers seems to warn us that our consumption of animals would lead to a plague.

The U.S. government is resuming the search for threatening viruses.

Dr. Michael Greger’s incredible 2010 presentation, in which he warned that the confinement and slaughter of animals would cause a pandemic.