Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has launched a free virtual course on infectious disease transmission models for public health officials and practitioners who make policy decisions.

That's every pathogenic disease discovered since the Roman Empire. Scientists have made a distressing discovery on how global warming will affect known infectious diseases. Climate hazards are ...

Researchers have characterized the seasonal effects on human social behavior to provide new insights on the risk of respiratory disease transmission. Researchers have characterised the seasonal ...

Our distinguished infectious disease epidemiology faculty at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health have experience in the biological, behavioral, and social aspects of infection and ...

In March 2022, President Biden announced the Clean Air in Buildings Challenge designed to lessen the risk of airborne infectious disease transmission in buildings, schools, and homes. Since the ...

In the early days of the pandemic, one of the scariest and most surprising features of SARS-CoV-2 was its stealth. Initially assumed to transmit only from people who were actively sick—as its ...

An academic researcher’s frenetic life sounds relaxing to Jose-Luis Jimenez these days. Since March, the analytical and atmospheric chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder has worked nonstop, ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A systematic review of studies of infections found no evidence of airborne transmission of ...

A new methodology predicts disease transmission from wildlife to humans, from one wildlife species to another and determines who is at risk of infection. The rate that emerging wildlife diseases ...

The world is fast approaching the third anniversary of those days when we got our first inkling that a new disease was spreading in China. In the months that followed, normal life was suspended, then ...