Travelers also face certain risks, including threats from wild animals. Some representatives of the fauna can be deadly, and ...

Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural ...

The opposite is also true. In the 19th century, European cattle brought rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash ...

Of all the large African mammals that wildlife veterinarian ... People had told me about dangerous animals like lions, but nobody had ever told me about the giraffe. We were frightened.