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Infection Control Tomorrow

Learn more about Infection Control Tomorrow, the industry's most progressive 2-day in-person event discussing traditional strategies and leading ...read more

Science Summit: Emerging Pathogens

The Science Summits provide an opportunity for manufacturers in the infection prevention and control arena to present and explain the science behind ...read more

Ebola Insights

One year after the first Ebola cases started to surface in Guinea, the World Health Organization (WHO) is publishing a series of 14 papers that take ...read more

PPE and Ebola Preparedness

A recent increase in demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) has caused delays for some products ordered by U.S. hospitals for Ebola ...read more

Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring

Report Summary Hospital executives, infection preventionists and healthcare epidemiologists are by now familiar with a number of givens relating to ...read more

Latest Headlines

California Department of Public Health Confirms 59 Cases of Measles

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announces that local public health officials have confirmed a total of 59 cases of measles in California residents since the end of December 2014. “If you have symptoms, and believe you may have been exposed, ...More
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UAB, Industry Partnership Could Lead to First Rapid Test for Bacterial Meningitis

Meningitis research efforts two decades in the making could soon come to fruition through a partnership between investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a medical device startup, with assistance from the UAB Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. ...More
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Antibiotic Use by Travelers May Add to Global Spread of Superbugs

Taking antibiotics for diarrhea may put travelers visiting developing parts of the world at higher risk for contracting superbugs and spreading these daunting drug-resistant bacteria to their home countries, according to a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases ...More
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Gastroenterology Societies Address CRE, ERCP-Related Infections

Patient safety is a primary concern for gastrointestinal endoscopists. You may have recently heard or read about the spread of infection by Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) through a procedure called ERCP. The following information provides background ...More
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Chicago Tops Bed Bug Cities List for Third Consecutive Year

Chicago tops the 2014 Bed Bug Cities List for the third year in a row. The list, released by pest control leader Orkin, ranks the cities by the number of bed bug treatments Orkin performed from January to December 2014. Bed bugs were in the news throughout 2014 in the Windy ...More
3 days ago Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene
Cintas Offers Four Tips for Fighting Workplace Illness

To help organizations keep employees healthy amidst cold and flu season, Cintas Corporation offers four illness-fighting tips. “Increased cold and flu outbreaks result in more absences, greatly reducing workplace productivity,” said James Wright, director ...More
3 days ago Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene
Transmission of Ebola Appears Tied to Increasing Population Density in Forested Regions

Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center have found an apparent link between human population density and vegetation cover in Africa and the spread of the Ebola virus from animal hosts to humans. Michael G. Walsh, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of epidemiology and ...More
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Study Maps Travel of H7 Influenza Genes

Influenza has a long history of being one of the most deadly diseases to afflict humanity, but what exactly makes it so dangerous? Certainly one reason is that influenza viruses have a history of jumping from other animals to humans, which, when the trans-species virus is ...More
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New Bacterial Language is Discovered

Bacteria communicate by means of chemical signals and can develop common characteristics through this "agreement" and also develop their potential pathogenic effects in this way. Scientists working with Dr. Helge B. Bode, an Merck-endowed professor for molecular ...More
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Only About Half of Teenage Girls Receive HPV Vaccine at the CDC's Recommended Age

It's a virus that is responsible for almost all cases of cervical cancer but a new study by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers indicates that only about half of the girls receive the vaccine at the recommended age to best protect themselves. Human ...More
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