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These conditions, coupled with the presence of birds and other animal “reservoirs,” which allow pathogens to live, replicate and thrive, contribute to increased disease transmission risks.

Health Air quality monitoring could help cruise ships reduce disease transmission. Researchers monitored indoor air quality in the buffet, gym, bar, restaurant, pub, theater and standard double ...

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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an extremely rare congenital condition that causes the body to grow a second skeleton, rendering patients immobile.

Source Reference: Groveman BR, et al "Lack of transmission of chronic wasting disease prions to human cerebral organoids" Emerg Infect Dis 2024; DOI: 10.3201/eid3006.231568.

Secondary transmission occurred among a total of 5289 flight contacts, indicating an overall SAR for in-flight COVID-19 transmission of 0.79% (95% CI, 0.77-0.81).

The disease, known as kuru, led to a loss of motor coordination and balance, and then to a body tremor resulting in death. At the height of the epidemic, some villages had a significantly reduced ...

In the Amazon basin, foodborne transmission is already the leading cause of acute Chagas disease. It has been described in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Venezuela.

One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness that appeared in animals in the 1980s and killed over 200 people during ...