Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...

Many hospital deaths are attributed every year to dust-borne diseases such as Aspergillus. It's not that the dust itself is dirty - just that the particles give a free ride to bacteria looking for ...

Virginia Tech researchers seek to understand the environmental factors that influence the distribution of hantavirus in rodent populations across the United States.

The threats of vector-borne diseases, which are transmitted to humans by other organisms like mosquitoes or ticks, are being exacerbated by climate change. To put this in perspective, by 2080 ...

Health officials in California have confirmed three deaths from the same rare rodent-borne virus that killed actor Gene ...

Borne upon the air are numerous chemicals ... which have been shown to affect other respiratory diseases like asthma. Coal dust led to a condition known as emphysema—known today as chronic ...

Female mosquitoes are some of the deadliest organisms in the world due to their ability to spread infectious diseases through a simple bite. Mosquito-borne diseases such as yellow fever, Zika, Dengue ...

This discovery paves the way for targeted treatments for Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses using genus-specific inhibitors. Lyme disease is an infectious condition caused by the ...