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Wearing masks is an effective way to cut off the spread of the respiratory virus. However, due to cultural differences and uncomfortable wearing experiences, not everyone is willing to wear masks; there is an urgent need to find alternatives to masks. In this study, we tested the disinfection effect of a portable ionizer on pandemic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (strain V34) and influenza A virus (strain CA04). Negative ions significantly reduced the concentration of particulate matter in the air above and effectively disinfected viruses stuck to the solid plate at the level of both nucleic acid and virus titer. The disinfection efficiency was &amp;gt;99.8% after 1-h exposure. Moreover, negative ions effectively disinfected aerosolized viruses; the disinfection efficiency was more than 87.77% after purification for 10 min. Furthermore, negative ions had a significant protective effect on susceptible animals exposed to viral aerosols. When the negative ionizer was switched from off to on, the inhalation 50% infective dose (ID<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>) for golden hamsters challenged with SARS-CoV-2 rose from 9.878 median tissue culture infective dose (TCID<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>) [95% confidence interval (CI), 6.727\u201314.013 TCID<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>] to 43.891 TCID<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> (95% CI, 29.31\u201376.983 TCID<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>), and the inhalation ID<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> for guinea pigs challenged with influenza A virus rose from 6.696 TCID<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> (95% CI, 3.251\u20139.601 TCID<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>) to 28.284 TCID<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> (95% CI, 19.705\u201340.599 TCID<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>). In the experiment of transmission between susceptible animals, negative ions 100% inhibited the aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A virus. Finally, we tested the safety of negative ion exposure. Balb\/c mice exposed to negative ions for 4 weeks showed no abnormalities in body weight, blood routine analysis, and lung pathology. 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