While CO₂ doesn’t transmit viruses itself, it acts as a proxy for indoor crowding and poor ventilation. The more people in a ...

With a background in biomedical informatics, Neal Goldstein focuses on computational approaches in complex data settings to understand infectious disease transmission among vulnerable populations ...

“In general, transmission in Europe is driven by suboptimal vaccination coverage for measles in a number of EU/EEA countries.

C. difficile (C. diff) is one of the most common and contagious hospital-acquired infections. Research has found that C. diff ...

Climate change is expanding disease zones, and innovative tools are now available to help doctors monitor and prevent climate ...

Infectious diseases are becoming more frequent, more severe, and harder to control in our closely connected world. Viruses ...

Waterborne transmission is part of a cultural vector ... But in terms of human diseases, generally it's in our interest to have the disease organisms be as mild as possible. What we can do depends ...

Low vaccination rates for influenza viruses and the lack of an HSV vaccine underscore the need for a new approach to reduce ...

Zoonotic and other infectious diseases are emerging and reemerging rapidly in recent times owing to altered climatic conditions, changing lifestyles, and unhealthy living conditions. The WHO listed 20 ...

In contrast, transmission of sexually transmitted pathogens (assuming rates of sexual contact don't necessarily increase with host density) and some vector-borne diseases is thought to be ...

A reliable, rapid test to assess the risk of mother-to-child HBV transmission The new rapid test assessed by Dr. Yusuke Shimakawa, a scientist in the Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases Unit at the ...