Other Diseases. Measles and TB are airborne-exclusive diseases. There are several other diseases that spread through respiratory droplets, which can exist either in the air or on surfaces.

Tuberculosis is spread through the air from one person to another, says the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Pictures of What Skin Cancer Looks Like Browns Predicted to Move on From ...

Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals ...

Agencies such as the CDC and the World Health Organization classify diseases as being predominantly spread by large particles or small particles; COVID-19 is believed to spread primarily through ...

Germs can spread to a baby through food that the parent eats at the time of childbirth, or from breastfeeding. The air. The air you breathe can carry droplets containing particles of a disease.

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.

Mpox is what is known as a zoonotic disease, which means it infects some animals as well as humans.Prior to the 2022 outbreak, most cases involved a person coming into contact with an infected animal, ...

They knew that germs spread diseases, and they knew that germs spread primarily through food, water, sex and touch, as well as through coughs and sneezes. Germs were not airborne. But in the 1930s ...

As global temperatures rise, the spread of infectious diseases is rapidly evolving in unexpected ways. That’s something that Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud thinks about a lot. A physician-scientist ...

Now, five years after Dr. Morawska started sounding the alarm, scientists are paying more attention to how other diseases may also spread through the air. At the top of their list is the bird flu.

In the 1930s, scientists began seriously considering the idea that microbes can spread disease through the air. Mildred Wells was an insightful, rigorous researcher who found that poliovirus was ...