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Infectious Agents

Dana-Farber Receives $5.6M Grant to Develop Rapid Countermeasures to Infectious Agents

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have received a $5.6 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Army Research Office (ARO) to develop transient immunity against known, unknown, naturally occurring, or engineered ...More
January 20, 2011
Posted in News
Looking at Clinical Symptoms, Exposure Factors Irrespective of Etiology in Encephalitis

Encephalitis is an acute clinical syndrome of the central nervous system (CNS), often associated with fatal outcome or permanent damage, including cognitive and behavioral impairment, affective disorders and epileptic seizures. Infection of the central nervous system is ...More
January 3, 2011
Posted in News
Opportunity to Submit Comments to OSHA on Exposure to Infectious Agents Closes Aug. 4

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is continuing to ask members of the infection prevention and control community to comment on occupational exposure to infectious agents in healthcare settings. ...More
July 20, 2010
Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
Breaking the Chain of Infection and Preventing Cross-Contamination

A plethora of studies in the medical literature has demonstrated that nearly everything in the healthcare setting – from surfaces, to healthcare workers’ hands, to medical equipment and everything in between — can serve as a reservoir and a vector for ...More
April 29, 2009
Posted in Articles, Environmental Hygiene, Hand Hygiene, PPE & Standard Precautions