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Nancy Haberstich is a registered nurse certified in infection prevention and control. She is self-employed as an international consultant, providing consultation to hospitals in Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil. Nancy served as the infection control coordinator in a 300-bed municipal hospital for 17 years and has served as technical advisor and scriptwriter for 13 training videotapes on a variety of infection prevention and control topics utilized by hospitals throughout the United States. She spent one year as a volunteer in Liberia, West Africa in 1999/2000 to reopen a school of nursing and paramedical training programs that had been destroyed by a decade of civil war. At the invitation of the Canadian Ministry of Health, Nancy consulted with one of the Toronto hospitals involved in the SARS crisis in 2003. She is the founder and owner of nanobugs, inc.

03/10/2010

H1N1 Influenza Virus: Not So “Novel” Now
Early in the recent pandemic, the CDC was searching for just the right name for the influenza pandemic virus.  H1N1 wasn’t enough of a name for those unfamiliar to the influenza virology.  Swine flu wasn’t totally accurate since the re-assortment of the viruses had produced a derivative ...

12/21/2009

Smelly Stories: Aromatherapy and Beyond
In June I adopted a new canine companion – a four-month-old female, 13-inch beagle – and named her Maggie Mae. These six months of living together have been fun and sometimes frustrating.  I have learned that her “nose rules.”  Comedian Dave Barry says that a beagle ...

12/09/2009

Cigarettes: Chock Full of Microbes
A study conducted by the University of Maryland School of Public Health was published last week in the December issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The goal of the study was to search for microbes in four common brands of American cigarettes.  Fifteen different classes of bacteria ...

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