The development of malaria vaccines requires considerable investment, for which there is little commercial interest, particularly for transmission-blocking vaccines that have the public health ...

People spend approximately 90 percent of their time indoors where most respiratory infections—a leading cause of death ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a workshop on transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by exploring the potential paths from the generation of these particles by infected ...

Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the ...

Yet surprisingly little is known about the factors that drive Zika transmission success. A new study led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and published in Communications Biology shows that ...

It details the failings of the agricultural and meat-producing communities, and the government bodies responsible for their oversight, that lead to BSE transmission to the human population.

Zika virus hijacks the skin of its human host to send out chemical signals that lure more mosquitoes to infect and spread the disease further, new research shows.

Climate change is impacting the spread of Salmonella, according to new research from the University of Surrey. This research follows previous work from the team, which found that weather change is ...