Experts in infectious disease and population health are increasingly concerned by the possibility of environmental transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus via airborne particles that may potentially travel significant distances ...
Aug 25, 2020
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After adding, and then deleting, a recommendation that U.S. travelers wear masks to protect themselves from monkeypox, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still says that those traveling to countries where ...
Jun 8, 2022
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Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.
Jan 16, 2012
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Scientists measuring the frequency and duration of face-to-face interactions between household members have found that close contact had no impact on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Jul 18, 2023
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Nurses, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals.
Sep 20, 2023
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Health officials across the U.S. Northeast are warning residents to take precautions after wildfire smoke traveling south from Canada unleashed unhealthy air quality levels that pose a risk to the sick, elderly and young ...
Jun 7, 2023
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Most public restrooms are grungy in the best of times. Now, we have the coronavirus risk to contend with, too. There are lots of risks—dirty sinks and door handles, airborne particles and other people in small, enclosed ...
Jun 5, 2020
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The Indian government on Tuesday dispatched a team of medical experts to the financial capital, Mumbai, to assess reports of a handful of cases of apparently untreatable tuberculosis.
Jan 17, 2012
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Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza was detected in dairy cattle for the first time in the United States in March 2024, with nine states reporting outbreaks by May. While the method of transmission among cattle is currently ...
May 15, 2024
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Could pigs be an unexpected source for transmitting the deadly Ebola virus?
Nov 15, 2012
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