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How Bleach Kills Bacteria

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have made strides in understanding exactly how bleach kills bacteria—and how ...read more

World Immunization Week is April 2024

"Immunize for a Healthy Future: Know, Check, Protect" is the message of this year’s World Immunization Week, being celebrated April 24-30, ...read more

Ebola Virus Disease

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the following frequently asked questions on Ebola virus disease. ...read more

Mobile Patient-Care Equipment

This report addresses the role mobile medical equipment may play in the transmission of disease-causing pathogens as well as the challenges related ...read more

Biocides and Sporicidal Disinfectants

This Pulse provides a quick summary of some of the ideas and perspectives coming out of the 2013 Spring Conference of the Society of Healthcare ...read more

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Unauthorized Annie

Meet Unauthorized Annie, she loves scrubBank™ and you will too. This compact, automated, quick dispense solution for scrub management supports infection prevention best practices and was designed to facilitate compliance with the AORN Recommended Practice for Surgical ...More
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Progress in Understanding Immune Response in Severe Schistosomiasis

Researchers at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts and Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) have uncovered a mechanism that may help explain the severe forms of schistosomiasis, or snail fever, which is caused by schistosome worms and is one of ...More
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Study Discovers Novel Pathway for Parasite Invasion and Dissemination

Parasites known as apicomplexans are responsible for widespread infections, including malaria and toxoplasmosis, in human and animal populations. While most other intracellular pathogens get into our cells first by a process known as phagocytosis or “cellular ...More
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Researchers Question Emergency Water Treatment Guidelines

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) recommendations for treating water after a natural disaster or other emergencies call for more chlorine bleach than is necessary to kill disease-causing pathogens and are often impractical to carry out, a new study has found. ...More
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Combating Malaria Using Environmental, Disease Data

Dealing with malaria is a fact of life for more than 91 million Ethiopians. Each year 4 million to 5 million contract malaria, one of the biggest health problems in this poor country. ...More
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10 Cases of MERS-CoV are Reported to WHO

On April 13 and 14, 2014 United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported a cluster of 10 laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection among healthcare workers identified through screening of contacts of a previously ...More
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Surviving Ebola, Overcoming Stigma

When Abdullah D. saw a doctor in the hospital close to his home in Conakry in late March 2014, he had high fever, headaches and felt very weak. The doctor immediately called in the infectious disease experts who arranged for Abdullah to be admitted to the country’s ...More
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Mechanism Helps Explain Persistence of Hepatitis C Virus

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a mechanism that explains why people with the hepatitis C virus get liver disease and why the virus is able to persist in the body for so long. The hard-to-kill pathogen, which infects ...More
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Two Cases of Human Infection with H7N9 Virus are Reported to WHO

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP), Hong Kong, SAR, China and the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of China recently notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of two additional laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza ...More
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Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa: 168 Cases, 108 Deaths

As of April 14, 2014, the Ministry of Health of Guinea has reported a cumulative total of 168 clinically compatible cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), including 108 deaths. The detailed situation report is available as of April 11, describing 159 clinically compatible ...More
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