The Bug-Buster Blog   Kelly M. Pyrek has served as editor in chief of Infection Control Today magazine for the past seven years, and manages a number of ICT-affiliated print and online offerings, including the Infection Control Education Institute, the ICT Conference on Professional Development, the ICT Series of Webinars, and GermStop. Recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists as an award-winning practitioner, she has served as an editorial manager, editor, and writer for newspapers, magazines, wire services, and public information bureaus for 25 years. She is a graduate of the Universityof Southern California.

You know swine flu has reached the final frontier when even Santa Claus is clamoring for the vaccine! Associated Press writer Holly Ramer is reporting that the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas is encouraging its members to take infection control precautions and has even sponsored a seminar on H1N1 influenza prevention at its recent conference. The rationale for making store Santas part of the high-priority group to receive the H1N1 flu vaccine is that they come into contact with the sniffling, sneezing, snot-nosed little tykes sitting on their laps while reciting their Christmas gift lists. To read this AP story, CLICK HERE.