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APIC Addresses What IPs Need to Know About Outbreaks, Epidemics and Pandemics

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) provide the following primer to help infection preventionists differentiate between outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics: What is an outbreak?An outbreak is a sudden rise in the number of cases of ...More

February 22, 2013

Posted in News, Policies and Practice

New Pathogen Epidemic Identified in Sub-Saharan Africa

A new study reveals that the emergence and spread of a rapidly evolving invasive intestinal disease, that has a significant mortality rate (up to 45 percent) in infected people in sub-Saharan Africa, seems to have been potentiated by the HIV epidemic in Africa. The team ...More

October 1, 2012

Posted in News

New Model of Disease Contagion Ranks U.S. Airports in Terms of Their Spreading Influence

Public health crises of the past decade — such as the 2003 SARS outbreak, which spread to 37 countries and caused about 1,000 deaths, and the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic that killed about 300,000 people worldwide — have heightened awareness that new viruses or bacteria could ...More

July 23, 2012

Posted in News

NIH Scientists Link Quickly Spreading Gene to Asian MRSA Epidemic

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues in China have described a rapidly emerging Staphylococcus aureus gene, called sasX, which plays a pivotal role in establishing methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) epidemics in most of Asia. Senior author ...More

April 22, 2012

Posted in News

New Model for Epidemic Contagion

Humans are considered the hosts for spreading epidemics. The speed at which an epidemic spreads is now better understood thanks to a new model accounting for the provincial nature of human mobility, according to a study published in EPJ B. The research was conducted by a ...More

January 11, 2012

Posted in News

New Imaging Technology Could Help Identify Start and Cause of Infectious Disease Epidemics

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston, Texas and Philips have collaborated to develop new imaging technology that could be used to help identify the start and cause of an infectious disease epidemic. King Li, MD, radiology chair and the project's leader, and ...More

August 17, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Internet Search Queries Can Help Monitor Epidemics, Could Quicken Public Health Response

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Google.org have found web-based search data to be a viable source of information for early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of dengue, an emerging mosquito-borne virus found in tropical areas of the world. Because search ...More

May 31, 2011

Posted in News

Anatomy of an Outbreak

What causes a virus to suddenly begin infecting large numbers of people? Scientists have long known that the process they call "viral emergence" involves a wide variety of factors. Some are changes in the environment, either generated by natural causes or human ...More

May 6, 2011

Posted in News

Widespread School Closures Needed to Stop Strain on Hospitals During Epidemics

Selective schools closures has been considered as a means of reducing transmission between children and hence reducing the number of cases at the peak of an epidemic but new research led by researchers at the University of Warwick shows that limited school closures are ...More

February 2, 2011

Posted in News

Computer Model Shows U.S. Vulnerable to MDR-TB Epidemic

While the U.S. has made great progress in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, the nation has become more susceptible to potential epidemics of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers. Computer simulations show ...More

September 27, 2010

Posted in News

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