Surgical face masks help prevent the spread of airborne pathogens and therefore were ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, a modified mask could also protect a wearer by detecting health ...

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 ...

Surgical face masks help prevent the spread of airborne pathogens and therefore were ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

It is delightful to listen to the tweeting and chirping of birds in the morning. People even spend time seeking, watching, and photographing birds in their ...

Karachi is witnessing a sharp rise in cases of Bird Fancier’s Lung, a rare respiratory illness caused by exposure to airborne ...

North Dakota is the 11th state in the U.S. with a measles outbreak, logging its first cases since 2011.

But while we've been busy focusing on physical distancing and surface cleaning, a quieter factor may have been playing a much bigger role in airborne disease transmission all along: carbon dioxide ...

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

The measles rash usually doesn’t appear for more than a week after someone has been exposed. Other symptoms are better early ...

I wrote a big piece on a relatively new, and very promising, approach to fighting respiratory diseases like Covid, ...