Tag: Disease transmission

Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband, William Firth Wells, were a dynamic duo in the field of aerobiology, the study of airborne microorganisms. Despite their groundbreaking work in proving that infectious pathogens could spread...

In 1985, Scott L. Gardner, a graduate student studying parasites in wild mammals, discovered he had contracted the parasitic worm Ascaris after returning from Bolivia. This experience led him to focus his career on...