(CNN) — The World Health Organization is opening up the definition of airborne pathogens – such as Covid-19, influenza and measles – to include when respiratory droplets spread through the air and ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Warmer temperatures are impacting the food supply and its safety, experts warned amid an outbreak of E. coli that has struck McDonald's Quarter Pounders. Experts said pathogens—the ...

Infections caused by ‘nightmare bacteria’, a deadly drug-resistant pathogen, are on a surge in the US, according to the ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed the association between indoor air respiratory pathogens and natural ventilation, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, and air ...

When COVID-19, formerly known as Sars-CoV-2, struck the city of Wuhan in China in 2019, healthcare experts knew what was coming next to the whole world. Right before their years, a highly contagious ...

Veterinary experts are puzzled about the pathogen that has caused respiratory illness in hundreds of dogs across the U.S., but there's one matter they tend to agree on. They believe the disease is not ...

This is the first article in a series on viroids. Viruses, bacteria, and fungi; most people will have heard of these three major types of disease-causing microbes. Some will also have heard about ...

While the compounds discussed in this review represent a glimmer of hope for the short and intermediate terms, it is clear that the development pipeline remains remarkably lean for molecules highly ...

An analysis of commercial raw cat foods has detected disease-causing microbes, including some that are resistant to ...

A giant stretch of Sargassum seaweed is headed toward the beaches of Florida and Mexico. The interplay between plastic marine debris and bacteria could cause a "pathogen storm," a study found. Florida ...

Don't feel as if you're out of the loop if you're not up on the terminology of spillover viruses. In fact, one of the doctors we interviewed for this series on spillovers asked, "What is your ...