The Economist13h
Five years after covid, have scientists learned their lesson?
It can remain active as an aerosol for up to three hours, and the droplets can travel farther than scientists realised.
America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease
The scientists had stressed that the idea of airborne transmission of the new virus was still mostly theoretical, but they’d ...
Computational model compares mpox's airborne transmission risk to COVID-19 and smallpox
A collaborative research effort between the A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and the A*STAR Institute of High ...
Kansas Reports Measles Outbreak With 23 Cases As Infections Rise Across US
At least 23 measles cases have been reported in Kansas, and the state health department said they could be linked to an ...
EurekAlert!4d
Study evaluates airborne transmission risk of mpox compared to COVID-19 and smallpox
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 ...
‘Air-Borne’ Review: The Microbes in the Mist
For years, public-health authorities downplayed the risk that pathogens could spread via droplets light enough to circulate ...
Health officials urge parents to vaccinate their children as measles outbreak spreads to Ohio
An outbreak of measles that has been spreading across the country has reached Ohio. Health officials say that an unvaccinated ...
America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease
If it had succeeded, this way of thinking would have represented one of the most lasting paths for governments to decrease ...
Daily Press19d
Book Review: ‘Air-borne’ transforms scientific history into detective story
The book shows what a vital role the science of airborne life has played in the fight against COVID, influenza and other diseases. Zimmer also introduces readers to figures little known to the mass ...