Scientists in Scotland have looked into how tackling foodborne pathogens in food producing animals could help reduce the consumption of contaminated meat. The project, undertaken by Moredun Research ...

Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as the planet heats up, new research predicts — and the world is not prepared. Fungi are ...

Public health researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health used computer modeling to reconstruct how ...

The study was conducted in a grassland on the UC Santa Cruz campus known as the “Great Meadow.” (Photo by Gregory Gilbert) Researchers grew a selection of 44 wild plant species with no previous ...

In just a decade, the drug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida auris (C. auris) has emerged as one of the most formidable ...

A new study challenges the common theory that the devastating potato blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans originated in Mexico. Researchers meticulously reconstructed its global migration history ...

Strains of Aspergillus are already in the U.S. but are expected to expand. Climate change may be putting millions more people at risk from an infection-causing fungi, which is likely spreading due to ...

Researchers have come up with a new way to identify more infectious variants of viruses or bacteria that start spreading in humans - including those causing flu, COVID, whooping cough and tuberculosis ...

Dr. Sameer Bhati, Public Health Analystn says that infectious diseases have been with us forever, together with the Common ...

A new airflow device from UBC Okanagan engineers traps exhaled aerosols almost immediately, sharply reducing pathogen exposure in indoor spaces. Early simulations suggest it could outperform existing ...

Climate change may be putting millions more people at risk from an infection-causing fungi, which is likely spreading due to warming global temperatures, scientists say. There will likely be an ...