Is no one interested in understanding the dynamics of airborne infection?” Explore the history of airborne contagion and the ...

The Trump administration has terminated a federal advisory committee that issued guidance about preventing the spread of ...

The Trump administration nixed the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three decades ...

During a pandemic of an airborne infectious disease, the number of patients needing hospital-based healthcare services may exceed available negative-pressure isolation room capacity. To evaluate one ...

Transmission of pathogen can occur in various ways including physical contact, contaminated food, body fluids, objects, airborne inhalation, or through vector organisms. Infectious diseases that ...

You have this convergence of crises,” says Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud. Here’s what that means and how she and others are ...

While CO₂ doesn’t transmit viruses itself, it acts as a proxy for indoor crowding and poor ventilation. The more people in a space, the more CO₂ builds up from exhaled breath. When there isn’t enough ...