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The NHS continues to say Covid spreads primarily through ‘droplet and touch’ while the WHO emphasises airborne transmission, ...

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

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

Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across ...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are ...

Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and ...

How these bacteria survive their airborne journey is key to their persistence ... "In the last 100 years, we have had the 1918 influenza, the 1981 HIV AIDS epidemic, and the 2019 SARS Cov2 pandemic," ...