The agreement for this was signed in Vientiane on Thursday (March 13) by the Director General of the Lao Ministry of Health’s Department of Communicable Disease Control, Dr Phonepadith ...

In early 2020, as word spread of a frightening new respiratory outbreak in China, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control ... for hours. In “Air-Borne,” the New ...

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 ...

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.

US President Donald Trump’s hostage envoy Adam Boehler’s direct dealings with Hamas officials on the release of hostages in Gaza were a “one-off situation” that as of now “hasn’t borne ...

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 ...

Research proves that masks help reduce the spread of airborne diseases by 80% compared to not wearing masks. Normalizing the use of masks – especially in crowded or public settings or during flu ...

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 ...

Their work indicated that tube–rculosis was airborne. Ditto measles, still among the most conta–gious diseases on record. The Wellses hoped their research could protect the troops, warning that ...

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the world. In 2014, while treating Ebola patients in Guinea, I contracted and ...