Black cats may be considered bad luck in many Western societies, however, one such sooty feline has brought good fortune to a ...

A cat named Pepper has once again helped scientists discover a new virus—this time a mysterious orthoreovirus found in a ...

Pepper’s last contribution to science was in May 2021, when he brought home a common cotton mouse carrying a type of ...

Pepper the cat is at it again. After his hunting skills helped virologists identify the first jeilongvirus in the United ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Pepper, the pet cat who made headlines last year for his role in the discovery of the first jeilongvirus found in the U.S., ...

A pet cat in Florida may have made scientific history by enabling the discovery of not one but two new strains of viruses. The cat in question, called Pepper, is like many cats, in that he likes to ...

Marburg virus is one of the world’s deadliest pathogens. Closely related to Ebola, it causes hemorrhagic fever with mortality ...

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