This week's coverage in Infection Control Today centered on a common thread: the systems, partnerships, and data that let infection prevention teams catch problems before patients are harmed.
News|Articles|March 17, 2026
- Infection Control Today, March 2026 (Vol. 30 No.1)
- Volume 30
- Issue 1
Bug of the Month: The Virus Behind the Dangerous Bite
Author(s)Isis Lamphier, MPH, MHA, CIC, AL-CIP
The Bug of the Month helps educate readers about existing and emerging pathogens that are clinically important in today's health care facilities.
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Bug of the Month helps educate readers about existing and emerging pathogens of clinical importance in health care facilities today. Each column explores the Bug of the Month's etiology, the infections it can cause, the modes of transmission, and ways to fight its spread. The pathogen profiles will span bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic species.
We encourage you to use Bug of the Month as a teaching tool to help educate health care personnel and start a dialogue about microbiology-related imperatives.
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Kenya’s secondary Ebola cases raise urgent questions about hospital readiness. Explore what the response reveals about contact tracing, health care worker protection, and the implementation of infection prevention plans.
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Presented at IDWeek 2026, a living review of 64 studies found the strongest evidence for dengue prevention from mosquito modification, while highlighting substantial uncertainty and research gaps in other approaches to Aedes vector control.
A poster presented at IDWeek was a systematic review of 35 studies that found rare transmission of viral hemorrhagic fever to health care personnel in high-income countries and highlighted the need for standardized exposure definitions to guide response.
For International Infection Prevention Week, Infection Control Today explores how prevention connects hospital departments with everyday community life and why infection preventionists (IPs), sterile processing department (SPD), professionals, and environmental services (EVS) teams deserve lasting support.
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