Among the most common potentially harmful airborne bacteria propelled from the toilet bowls of indoor bathrooms are E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). These can be inhaled, raising the ...

The scientists had stressed that the idea of airborne transmission of the new virus was still mostly theoretical, but they’d ...

Our air quality is affected by nearby environmental factors, as well as ripple effects from thousands of miles away. Understanding how these factors affect our health and planet is crucial. In his ...

My family always keeps the toilet lids closed whenever they're not in use for two main reasons: so that our dogs don't drink toilet water, and so nothing gets sprayed throughout the bathroom when we ...

Study by MIT and others identifies genes essential for tuberculosis bacterium’s survival during airborne transmission.

How these bacteria survive their airborne journey is key to their persistence, but very little is known about how they ...

So far, much of the research on tuberculosis centers on its pathophysiology—the mechanisms the bacteria use to infect a host — as well as ways to diagnose and treat the disease. “There is a blind spot ...