Slide Show: Clostridium difficile Infections

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending March 23, 2025.

The Bug of the Month helps educate readers about existing and emerging pathogens that are clinically important in today's health care facilities.

This week's Infection Control Today's Hot Topics in IPC discusses outbreak updates on measles and avian flu and the latest in global health disruptions.

A Candida auris outbreak in a burn intensive care unit (BICU) in Illinois has highlighted the persistent challenges of infection control in high-risk health care settings. Despite rigorous containment efforts, this multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen continued to spread, underscoring the need for enhanced prevention strategies, environmental monitoring, and genomic surveillance.

Dr Noah Greenspan discusses the evolving understanding of long COVID, current treatment strategies, diagnostic challenges, and the critical need for research and awareness in post-viral syndromes.

"The greater impact of gratitude, whether localized or systemic, is to increase the opportunities for others to experience gratitude and to experience higher levels of gratitude in both personal and professional environments."