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The IRC, in partnership with Yemen’s Ministry of Health, has launched a new strategy to boost childhood vaccination rates and rebuild trust in immunization across vulnerable communities. With support ...

Wildfire-induced deterioration of air quality leads to increase in indoor activities, fostering conditions conducive to airborne transmission.

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Here’s an Inconvenient Truth: Disease Is in the Air We ignored the science of airborne transmission for a century. Carl Zimmer tells us why.

Learn about how airborne diseases spread, the common types, how to prevent them, and more.

Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against more than COVID-19.

There is also evidence for airborne dissemination of a range of common pathogens such as influenza, which in the U.S. led to an estimated 28,000 deaths in the 2023–24 flu season.

Award-winning science journalist and author Carl Zimmer details the dangers of new viruses, air pollution and wildfires on public and planet health ...

They recognized that airborne pathogens posed a fundamentally different threat than the one posed by short‑range coughs and sneezes.

Airborne diseases spread easily and are difficult to prevent. Learn more about the types of airborne diseases and how to protect yourself.

The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like covid-19, influenza, and measles.