Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite that spreads from bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. If left untreated in humans, malaria can cause severe symptoms, health ...

As climate changes, temperature isn't the only factor to influence the spread of infectious diseases. Humidity plays a role, too, according to new research published this week (Feb. 25) in Ecology ...

The impact of various environmental factors on SARS-CoV-2 transmission remains debated, partly due to limited physical experiments with infectious virus that closely replicate real-world conditions.

Human beings are at the interface of the earth’s physical, geological and biological processes. Any fundamental global environmental change affecting these systems will drastically impact human health ...

A Tacoma owner hooked up a 5,400-pound trailer for a routine haul and watched his transmission temperature climb to 251 ...

A groundbreaking study combined novel experimental data within an innovative modeling framework to examine how temperature might affect transmission risk of malaria in different environments in Africa ...