In 1812, French military general Napoleon Bonaparte controlled most of Europe. Even with all this power, though, when he went ...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

A vaccine is a part of a virus that is used to build immunity and prevent the spread of disease. Here's five of the most ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Norovirus, sometimes called the “winter vomiting disease” or “two-bucket disease” —because it causes both vomiting and diarrhea — is on the rise across the nation, even as seasonal flu is taking off ...

Scientists have discovered how one of the world's most destructive plant diseases manages to slip past crops' defenses—a ...

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 ...