In a university news release, senior author Donald Milton, MD, DrPH, of UM, said, “Our results suggest that portable air ...

In 2024, Utah was ranked as having one of the lowest rates of vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella in the U.S. But ...

Since it was first detected in the U.S. in 2014, H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has jumped from wild birds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"The field has reached a turning point," said Dr. Paul A. Rhodes, CEO. "The capabilities required to enable broad adoption of sequence-based transmission detection ...

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 ...