The World Health Organization (WHO) for the first time has reached a consensus on the definition of airborne disease ...

Humans can catch a huge number of diseases from animals, and these can be caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites or fungi.

North Carolina GOP lawmakers in the state Senate voted to undo the law allowing people to wear masks in public for health ...

The worry is the more cases we have the more likely it is that we will have a tragedy on our hands,’ a paediatric consultant ...

The Coordinator of Risk Communication at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Joel Abekuliya, has called on the public to adhere to COVID-19 preventive measures as case numbers begin to rise.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis, which is spread through air and responsible for a large number of deaths, is part of ...

WHO has proposed new terminology for “pathogens that transmit through the air”.1 The stated rationale is that “[d]uring the pandemic, the terms ‘airborne’, ‘airborne transmission’, ‘droplets’ and ...

Measles is one of the world's most contagious diseases and was technically eliminated in Australia in 2014 thanks to ...

Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000, meaning that there was no sustained transmission. Yet ...

Although there are important cultural aspects to the debate — in much of Asia, the Middle East and Europe, wearing shoes in ...