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

The scientists had stressed that the idea of airborne transmission of the new virus was still mostly theoretical, but they’d ...

The case in Stevens County, Kansas, is the first confirmed case of measles in Kansas since 2018, officials said.

While covering Covid, science writer Carl Zimmer learned how little we know about air and how it affects disease transmission ...

Dr. Jyoti Somani with Jackson Health offers her expertise after an isolated case at a Miami high school. A key point: People ...

Cold germs from someone’s nose or cough can live on surfaces for hours to days, depending on many factors. Learn which ...

With measles cases now confirmed in Oklahoma, health officials are urging the public to take precautions against one of the ...

A history of aerobiology would normally be a book that would have little interest beyond the science community. But in ...

The measles outbreak in the South Plains region of Texas has grown to 223 cases. 29 of those infected have been hospitalized ...

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 ...