In the early days of the pandemic, one of the scariest and most surprising features of SARS-CoV-2 was its stealth. Initially assumed to transmit only from people who were actively sick—as its ...

Researchers have characterized the seasonal effects on human social behavior to provide new insights on the risk of respiratory disease transmission. Researchers have characterised the seasonal ...

As climate-driven weather extremes fuel fires across the U.S. West, the tendency of residents to spend more time indoors may ...

A long-running debate in vaccine design revolves around whether a vaccine should be optimized to prevent the virus from ...

In March 2022, President Biden announced the Clean Air in Buildings Challenge designed to lessen the risk of airborne infectious disease transmission in buildings, schools, and homes. Since the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers assessed the Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencing approach for determining the health care ...

The world is fast approaching the third anniversary of those days when we got our first inkling that a new disease was spreading in China. In the months that followed, normal life was suspended, then ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids - deer, elk ...

Dr. Sameer Bhati, Public Health Analystn says that infectious diseases have been with us forever, together with the Common cold and COVID-19. Even though new and advanced treatments and vaccines have ...