Public Health and Emerging Disease Outbreaks: Why Talking to the Community is a Good...
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The keys to combat infectious diseases are out there. Due to insufficient communication between key players, we still don't know how to compile all...
Planning is Critical to Managing Legionella and Other Waterborne Pathogen Risks in the Pandemic
Special Session of Legionella Conference Brings an Opportunity for Public Health and Industry Leaders to Work Together to Develop Emergency Plans and Water Safety...
Newly Published HAI Series for Clinical Laboratory Professionals
We are pleased to announce that two of our authors, Rodney E. Rohde and Amber Mitchell, have collaborated on a series of FOCUS articles...
Insurance Companies Pay the Price for HAIs
Peer Reviewed
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Hospitals continually publicize their levels of quality and safety, but there is still a steady increase in occurrences and fatalities due to infections...
The Dangers of Celebrating Too Early
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Clostridium difficile infections are a significant cause of death and harm in the United States. Despite their growing prevalence, surveillance and public reporting of...
Drug Resistant Malaria: Are Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes the Answer?
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Malaria is a deadly disease caused by parasites that mosquitoes transmit. It is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. Effective chemical...
Zika Threat Warning Raised Without Proof of Causation
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Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, convened an Emergency Committee of 18 experts and advisers to assess the level of threat...
Global Antibiotic Awareness Week
Antibiotics are sometimes revered as one of humankind’s greatest discoveries. Thanks to antibiotics, the lives of billions of people have been saved. The ubiquity of...
Antibiotic Resistance – The return of the Four Horsemen
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Antibiotics are almost single-handedly responsible for eliminating deaths and mortality caused by infectious disease. However, antibiotic resistance is disseminating among deadly pathogens, returning us...
Endoscopes: A Patient versus Worker Health Dilemma – Total Health
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As the public becomes more aware of the possibility of becoming infected with drug resistant pathogens from inadequately reprocessed endoscopes when they undergo endoscopic...
