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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

Prompt Use of Antivirals is Key This Flu Season

A report published in the Jan. 16, 2015 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) estimates that this season’s flu ...read more

Labs and Ebola

Due to a heightened concern in the United States about Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued guidance for clinical ...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

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FDA Approves a Second Vaccine to Prevent Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease

The Food and Drug Administration announces it has approved Bexsero, a vaccine to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B in individuals 10 through 25 years of age. Bexsero is the second vaccine approved by the FDA in the past ...More
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Roche Receives FDA Clearance for Next-Generation Cobas MRSA/SA Test

Roche announces that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided 510(k) clearance for the cobas® MRSA/SA Test for the early, simultaneous detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (SA) ...More
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Protecting Fans from Ebola at the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea

Thanks to preparedness activities by Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Health, FIFA and WHO, the 1 million people gathered in Equatorial Guinea for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations are able to focus more on footie than on fears of Ebola. ...More
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SLU Scientist Aims to Improve Antibiotics to Treat Staph Infections

In research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Saint Louis University Mee-Ngan F. Yap, PhD, discovered new information about how antibiotics like azithromycin stop staph infections, and ...More
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WHO Calls for Greater Efforts to Prevent and Control the Spread of Herpes Simplex Virus

New World Health Organization (WHO)-led global estimates for herpes simplex virus type 2, published by the journal PLOS ONE, show that more than 400 million people worldwide were infected with the virus in 2012. The estimates underline the extent to which herpes simplex ...More
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Expert Panel Develops Tool to Reduce Costly CAUTIs During Hospital Stays

The American Nurses Association (ANA) is spearheading an initiative to reduce catheter–associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) — one of the most common and costly infections contracted by patients in hospitals — through an assessment and ...More
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New Case of MERS-CoV in Oman is Reported to WHO

On Jan. 17, 2015, the National IHR Focal Point of Oman notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of one additional case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. Details of the case are as follows: A 43-year-old male from Dakhelyia ...More
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How Malaria-Spreading Mosquitoes Can Tell You're Home

Females of the malaria-spreading mosquito tend to obtain their blood meals within human dwellings. Indeed, this mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, spends much of its adult life indoors where it is constantly exposed to human odor – from used clothing, bedding, etc. ...More
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2.5 Million in Sierra Leone Receive Anti-Malarial Medicines in Emergency Response Campaign

Two successive emergency response campaigns in Sierra Leone to distribute anti-malarial drugs to people living in areas affected by the Ebola virus disease outbreak have successfully reached more than 2.5 million people, and significantly reduced the number of people with ...More
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As Ebola Deaths Rise, Researcher Sees Parallels with Devastating Medieval Plague

If you think that Ebola is bad – and it is – the current outbreak in West Africa is small compared with another deadly epidemic that engulfed much of the globe centuries ago. It is realistic to estimate that during the Middle Ages, plague – also known as ...More
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