As more people - and their respective pathogens - travel to space, it is likely that this is only the beginning.

The study by researchers from the French national public health institute aimed to identify priority pathogens that could be suitable for wastewater surveillance (WWS) during the Paris 2024 ...

Thus, when these biological properties cannot be anticipated for newly discovered pathogens, it should be assumed that the pathogen is a potential pandemic pathogen (and therefore managed at the ...

The claim makes a broad generalization about pathogens that’s not supported by science. It has been well-documented that pathogens can evolve to be more virulent.

Measles virus. Selection criteria included analytical feasibility, relevance to the Olympics, pathogen characteristics, and their value in informing public health policies.

A Chinese researcher in Michigan and her boyfriend have been charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that “can cause devastating diseases in crops” into the United States, according to ...

Such estimations are not straightforward, not least because of the huge diversity in pathogen characteristics, even among a single group, such as the coronaviruses.

The pandemic potential of these viruses was no accident, it was the desired end game. Such experiments can pinpoint mutations that can affect pathogen characteristics, yet there is no guarantee that ...

One of the students who developed the new database in Wiedmann's laboratory, Michael Chung '02, began by assembling the pathogen characteristics that the database would need.

It has changed our view of host pathogen characteristics." Aksoy and her team also found that the genome itself, in terms of physical structure and size, looks similar to free-living bacteria.