The Future of Well-being is Residual: A New Era of Cleaning and Public Health
Introduction
In a world where disease prevention hinges on the battle against invisible microbes, the advent of residual sanitizers to augment traditional disinfection offers a...
Is Polio Coming Back?
It was an unwelcome surprise in 2023 when the news broke that Canada had detected the polio virus in wastewater. The Canadian sample analysis...
Norovirus – The Cruise Ship Revenge Bug?
By now it has become clear that Norovirus is back and in full force on cruise ships. Based on the latest CDC data by...
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever – An Up “Tick” in 2023
What is CCHF?
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus (CCHFV) is a tick-borne virus belonging to the genus Nairovirus, family Bunyaviridae (Kuehnert, 2021). The disease was first described in...
Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer and Handwashing Do Not Kill Norovirus
What Healthcare, Food Service, and the General Public Need to Know to Protect Themselves
Main Article:
While the world remains focused on COVID, another bug has...
Laboratory-Acquired Infections and the Pandemic. Too Much Speculation, Not Much Action! (Part 2)
In part 1 of this 2-part article, we looked at the concerns raised by potential laboratory-acquired infections (LAIs). To reiterate, LAIs happen and will...
Laboratory-Acquired Infections and the Pandemic. Too Much Speculation, Not Much Action! (Part 1)
By now, we all have heard the latest Wall Street Journal news (1) stating that the U.S. Energy Department believes that the Covid pandemic...
Critical Aspects of Infection Control in the Public Setting
Infection control refers to evidence-based measures and practices that are put in place to prevent the spread of infectious diseases within a community or...
Wastewater: A “Smelly” Source for Critical Epidemiological Information
Who would have thought that our wastewater would become so popular during the COVID outbreak? Yet here we are in 2023 and wastewater has...
Masking or Not Masking (the ongoing discussion)
It’s now the end of 2022, and in addition to Covid-19, Influenza and RSV have been causing a significant strain on the public’s health....
