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.

How tiny plastic particles enter the atmosphere is an important question, as airborne microplastics are a potential health threat. Using a global chemical transport model, researchers have ...

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 ...

It’s in those days of quiet blood-thirst that ticks pass along bacteria that causes conditions like Lyme disease, a growing problem driven in the U.S. by black-legged ticks (or Ixodes scapularis).

Air pollution significantly contributes to autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, type 1 diabetes, and inflammatory bowel disease. The inhalation of ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, affecting millions ... or blood transmission. This airborne transmission route makes TB distinctly different from ...

At least 1,318 people have exhibited symptoms and 53 have died, the WHO said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an unknown disease that has killed dozens in ...

This discovery paves the way for targeted treatments for Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses using genus-specific inhibitors. Lyme disease is an infectious condition caused by the ...

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 tuberculosis was airborne. Ditto measles, still among the most contagious diseases on record. The Wellses hoped their research could protect the troops, warning that ...