Infection Control Today - Cholera

Interim Immunization Recommendations for Emergency Responders to Hurricane Katrina

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), required immunizations for emergency responders include: --Tetanus and diphtheria toxoid (receipt of primary series, and Td booster within 10 years) -- Hepatitis B vaccine series for persons who will be ...More

September 6, 2005

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Interim Immunization Recommendations for Emergency Responders to Hurricane Katrina

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), required immunizations for emergency responders include: --Tetanus and diphtheria toxoid (receipt of primary series, and Td booster within 10 years) -- Hepatitis B vaccine series for persons who will be ...More

September 6, 2005

Posted in News

CDC Issues Instruction on Potential for Transmission of Infectious Diseases in Hurricane-Afflicted Areas

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), although infectious diseases are a frightening prospect, widespread outbreaks of infectious disease after hurricanes are not common in the United States. Rare and deadly exotic diseases, such as cholera or ...More

September 6, 2005

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Avian Cholera Could Spread From Great Salt Lake

Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) National Wildlife Health Center are concerned that avian cholera, which recently killed about 30,000 eared grebes -- small, diving water birds --at Great Salt Lake, Utah, could spread as birds migrate south for the winter, ...More

November 16, 2004

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150-Year-Old Lessons of Physician John Snow Still Relevant Today

It was 150 years ago this September that a London physician named John Snow urged officials in his city to shut down a well-used water pump in the heart of the Soho district, a move that may have helped to hasten the end of a deadly cholera epidemic that had killed hundreds ...More

August 30, 2004

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AVANT to Develop an Oral Anthrax and Plague Vaccine for U.S. Department of Defense

NEEDHAM, Mass.-- AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc. today announced it has been awarded a subcontract to develop for the U.S. Department of Defense an oral combination vaccine against anthrax and plague using AVANT's proprietary vaccine technologies. Under the agreement, AVANT ...More

January 22, 2003

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Eliminating Needles:Doctor Developing Vaccine Patch

WASHINGTON, DC-A former US Army doctor may have discovered a new method of distributing medication-one that could eliminate tears from pediatricians' offices and provide the world with a less expensive method of vaccinating the public. Gregory Glenn has accidentally ...More

December 27, 2000

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