It can remain active as an aerosol for up to three hours, and the droplets can travel farther than scientists realised.

Two people have died from measles as the U.S. faces a growing outbreak of the highly contagious virus. Can you get measles if ...

Costa Rica reported 474 tuberculosis cases in 2023-2024, but PAHO estimates numbers could double due to underreporting.

When wildfires threaten communities, human health can be impacted as smoke distributes on the breeze, infiltrating various structures. To help people protect themselves and their families, researchers ...

A collaborative research effort between the A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and the A*STAR Institute of High ...

A study by A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (A*STAR IHPC) has assessed the airborne transmission risk of mpox compared to SARS-CoV-2 and ...

An outbreak of measles that has been spreading across the country has reached Ohio. Health officials say that an unvaccinated ...

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

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

The Infectious Disease and Climate Change Fund (IDCCF) addresses the impact of climate change on human health in Canada by: Health professionals with the information they need to provide advice to ...

These findings highlight the need for specific interventions to decrease air pollution exposure, particularly in vulnerable urban populations, to mitigate the burden of respiratory diseases. The ...

If it had succeeded, this way of thinking would have represented one of the most lasting paths for governments to decrease people’s risks from COVID and from airborne diseases more generally.