The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like Covid, influenza and measles. Motivated by grave missteps in the pandemic, the ...

In the early evening of March 7, 2020, I was on my cellphone in an airport terminal, telling a friend that I was afraid to write an article that risked ruining my journalistic reputation. I had been ...

The World Health Organization and 500 experts have established a consensus on the definition of airborne diseases. The groups are aiming to prevent confusion similar to that experienced during the ...

The World Health Organization has defined a new set of criteria for infectious diseases spread through the air following significant controversy and confusion during the pandemic about how the ...

The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like COVID-19, influenza, and measles. Motivated by grave missteps in the pandemic, ...

Following several years of collaboration with major public health agencies, the World Health Organization has broadened its classification of airborne diseases — a move that could have significant ...

A personal system cut that number to 47.6 per cent. Adding an exhaust element dropped it to 38 per cent. The jet-sink system ...

After a drawn-out global controversy over the coronavirus, the W.H.O. has updated its classification of how pathogens spread through the air. By Carl Zimmer In the early days of the Covid pandemic, a ...

With winter approaching and people spending more time indoors, the quality of the air they breathe becomes increasingly important, especially during cold and flu season.