Infection Control Today - Pandemic Preparedness

Infectious Disease Control Among Top Public Health Achievements

The major public health achievements of the first 10 years of the 21st century included improvements in vaccine preventable and infectious diseases, reductions in deaths from certain chronic diseases, declines in deaths and injuries from motor vehicle crashes, and more, ...More

May 19, 2011

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Researchers Examine Use of a Triage Scoring System in Flu Pandemic

Kayode A Adeniji and Rebecca Cusack, of the Critical Care Research Unit at Southampton General Hospital, in Southampton, UK, report that triage protocols are only initiated when it is apparent that resource deficits will occur across a broad geographical area despite ...More

January 26, 2011

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Nation's First Comprehensive Guide for Hospital Emergency Preparedness Exercises

With the publication of the nation's first comprehensive, federally funded guide to hospital emergency preparedness exercise development, Dr. Nathaniel Hupert at Weill Cornell Medical College and his collaborators have provided a new toolset for strengthening hospitals' ...More

December 16, 2010

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States Achieve High Scores for Health Emergency Preparedness but Progress Threatened by Budget Cuts

In the eighth annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report, 14 states scored nine or higher on 10 key indicators of public health preparedness. Three states (Arkansas, North Dakota, and Washington State) scored 10 out of 10. ...More

December 15, 2010

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H1N1 Flu Pandemic Was a Real-World Test of Preparedness

Terri Rebmann, PhD, RN, CIC, from the Institute of Biosecurity, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health at Saint Louis University, says that the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic provided a "real-world test" of hospital disaster plans, and that institutions must ...More

November 26, 2010

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2009 H1N1 Pandemic: What Went Right and What Went Wrong?

In this week's PLoS Medicine, Gabriel Leung from the government of the Hong Kong SAR and Angus Nicoll from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control offer their reflections on the international response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, including what went ...More

October 6, 2010

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Kimberly Clark and NOVAPLUS Help Providers Prepare For the Next Pandemic Through Sourcing Event

Novation, a healthcare industry supply contracting company, announces that NOVAPLUS® and Kimberly-Clark Health Care are hosting a sourcing event for products providers need in the event of a pandemic. The members of VHA, University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) and Provista ...More

September 10, 2010

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

PPE Use, Absenteeism Escalates in a Pandemic, Study Says

Canadian researchers advise hospitals to stock up on critical pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks and respirators in anticipation of a potential pandemic. In advance of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, they point to the variation in what was known ...More

August 31, 2010

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Pandemic Flu Experience Drives New Approach to Medical Countermeasures

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released an examination of the federal government’s system to produce medications, vaccines, equipment and supplies needed for a health emergency, known as medical countermeasures. The ...More

August 23, 2010

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Personalizing Medicine to Prevent Pandemics

What makes some viral infections fatal and others much less severe is largely a mystery. It is thought that a part of the variability can be attributed to differences in how individuals respond to infection.Professor Michael Katze, presenting at the Society for General ...More

March 31, 2010

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