A new study from Durham, N.C.-based Duke Medicine revealed that using a combination of chemicals and ultraviolet light to clean patient rooms can cut transmission of four major infection-causing ...

Vaccination and boosting, especially when recent, helped to limit the spread of COVID-19 in California prisons during the first Omicron wave, according to an analysis by researchers at UC San ...

A critical component in analyzing the development and spread of viruses is the mechanism by which it is transmitted. Transmission of viruses occurs in two different ways: horizontally and vertically.

Dr. Sameer Bhati, Public Health Analystn says that infectious diseases have been with us forever, together with the Common cold and COVID-19. Even though new and advanced treatments and vaccines have ...

While the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were marked by religious hand-washing and disinfecting of everything from groceries to doorknobs, scientists quickly learned airborne transmission was the ...

Before April 2022, monkeypox virus infection in humans was seldom reported outside African regions where it is endemic. Currently, cases are occurring worldwide. Transmission, risk factors, clinical ...

India's deadliest Nipah outbreak occurred in 2001, when 66 cases were reported in West Bengal and 45 people died. In 2007, ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the COVID-19 infection, can be transmitted from mother to baby before, during and after childbirth -- but such occurrences are rare, a new study reveals. SARS-CoV-2, the ...

Back in the early to mid-1980s prior to the vaccine availability of hepatitis B, concerns about proper infection control in dentistry emerged. Ungloved dentists, especially oral surgeons, were ...