For years, public-health authorities downplayed the risk that pathogens could spread via droplets light enough to circulate ...

“Airborne transmission” refers to when infectious respiratory particles expel into ... regardless of the size of the droplet. The new report aims to cut down on the confusion around how ...

Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across ...

We asked experts for measures people can take that may help boost defenses against COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases. Lydia Bourouiba, an expert in fluid dynamics and disease transmission at MIT ...

Regarding transmission, Dr Owuor explains that respiratory infections usually spread through airborne or droplet transmission. "The spread of respiratory infections is usually airborne or droplet.

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person's lungs to another person's during coughing, sneezing or talking, according to ...

Tuberculosis is a respiratory disease caused by Mycobacterium ... Under these constraints, they mimicked the droplet transmission as best they could, by setting the plates in an extremely dry ...