Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some portable air cleaners generate chemicals such as ozone, formaldehyde and hydroxyl radicals to kill microbes.

Researchers in Finland published interim results in March from an ongoing study on the effectiveness of portable air cleaners in daycare centers to reduce childhood infections. The study compared two ...

During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical professionals offered many suggestions to keep people safe from the airborne virus including masks, isolation and frequent sanitation. One of the ...

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Built-in mechanical ventilation and portable air cleaners, used by hospitals to help mitigate the spread of viruses, may actually spread viruses and other pathogens in some instances, according to new ...

Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor spread of infections are rarely tested for how well they protect people – and very few studies evaluate their potentially harmful effects. That’s the ...