All tag results for 'disease'

This is absolutely disgusting!!

In Yulin in Guangxi province, China, there is a festival that many residents consider an ancient summer solstice tradition.

A dog-meat festival!!

This awful festival leads to the deaths of 10,000 dogs, many of whom are electrocuted, burned and skinned alive!

Tags: activists, animal rights, awful, china, disease, disgusting, dog, dog meat, dogs, festival, government, sad sad, unhealthy

Three blind mice…three blind mice…SEE how they run!

After receiving retinal implants, a group of mice now have the ability to see for the first time.

This is a HUGE step towards helping humans with eye diseases!!!!

Scientists used an extremely fine needle to

Tags: blind, cell implants, disease, eyes, humans, mice, research, science, test

So, out of all the species in the world…which one is most likely to kill everything???

While most would say that humans are the Most Dangerous Game AND the Most Dangerous Animal, it's actually something that has wings.

Tags: bat, disease, health, livestock, most dangerous animal, research, science, virus

Owners are willing to go to great lengths to make sure their pets live as comfortably as possible!

Take Richard and Tracy Mills of England. They allowed the brilliant docs at the Queen Mother's hospital for animals in Hertfordshire to perform a procedure on their cat, Harry, that's only been done a few times…

A few times in the entire world!

But procedures like this could help doctors who practice on humans as well.

Tags: animals, cat, disease, doctor, dog, england, hospital, pets, research, science, stijn niessen, veterinarian

Your feline's aging process just got a bit more inneresting…

Japanese scientists have studied wild cats and found that they have the same proteins in their brains as humans with Alzheimer's disease.

So your old cranky cat that wanders around aimlessly could actually be stricken with the mental health disease.

Tags: alzheimers, cat, dementia, disease, dog, proteins, study, university of california davis

Sometimes you should give a friend a helping hand…but not in this sense!

A 60 year old was struck with the bubonic plague after a friend asked her to help a homeless cat in Oregon.

That's right…the bubonic plague…a disease that hasn't been around since the MIDDLE AGES!

Tags: bubonic plague, cat, disease, health, homeless, icky, oregon, rat, stray

Humans are not so different for their animals cohorts.

We get sick, they get sick…and sicky is very icky!

So what are some common diseases that people share with other animals???

Tags: animals, disease, health, humans, science