It remains to be seen how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will act on this information in its own guidance for ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) for the first time has reached a consensus on the definition of airborne disease ...
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza was detected in dairy cattle for the first time in the United States in March 2024, ...
After the confusion of 2020, WHO has finally changed its definition of how diseases can spread through the air. But what is the new definition—and what needs to happen next? Mun-Keat Looi reports In ...
WHO has proposed new terminology for “pathogens that transmit through the air”.1 The stated rationale is that “[d]uring the pandemic, the terms ‘airborne’, ‘airborne transmission’, ‘droplets’ and ...
The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like Covid ...
The WHO concluded that airborne transmission occurs as sick people exhale pathogens that remain suspended in the air, contained in tiny particles of saliva and mucus that are inhaled by others.
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 ...
At least 200 Northern California residents may have been exposed to measles after a child with the airborne disease came to ...