Despite the constant presence of mosquitoes, the risk of disease transmission from them fluctuates throughout the year. Harris County categorizes the year into months with high and low risks for ...

Adaptive ventilation systems could prevent airborne disease transmission on cruise ships, recent research suggests. The analysis, published in Science of the Total Environment, looked at indoor ...

Research from 2014 showed that bedbugs were capable of spreading to mice the pathogen that causes Chagas disease. And third—the missing piece—transmission must occur in the wild, not just in ...

Here’s how it works. Affected populations: FOP is an extremely rare disease that is estimated to affect around 1 in 1 million people. It does not affect one demographic more than others ...

CWD is the most transmissible of the prion disease family with highly efficient transmission between cervids. Long-term studies showed no evidence of transmission to macaques using highly ...

In-flight transmission contributed to the spread of COVID-19 infection, indicating international passenger flights may be an important route of transmission. Evidence of COVID-19 transmission on ...

The results, published March 19 in The American Journal of Human Genetics, lay the foundation for future research on the fatal disease kuru—a disease transmitted during traditional ...

Thanks to decades of successful vector control strategies, vector-borne transmission of Chagas disease has significantly decreased in many regions. Oral ingestion of Trypanosoma cruzi through ...

One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion ... Diseases like Kuru in humans also taught us that prions can be transmissible ...

Kuru was the first spongiform encephalopathy of human beings to be experimentally transmitted to non-human primates. This disease is of importance not only for historical reasons but also because of ...

Other prion diseases include kuru, a dementia seen in New Guinea ... The Nature Medicine paper provides the first evidence that transmission of Alzheimer’s disease can occur via human-to-human ...