|Articles|December 27, 2022

Top 10 Most Popular Infection Control Today Articles of 2022: 7, 6, 5

This last week of 2022, Infection Control Today® reviews the most popular articles. Here are the 7th, 6th, and 5th.

Infection Control Today^® (ICT^®) strives all year to give you the best, most helpful information to do your job. Starting with the tenth most popular article, we will countdown the Top 10 most popular articles ICT® posted in 2022.

Here are the 7th, 6th, and 5th most popular articles:

7th Most Popular Article: COVID-19 Brain Changes: New Evidence Details Long-Term Effects of Infection

A new study supports the conclusion that the “brain fog” reported by many who have recovered from mild COVID-19 infection is real and has an anatomical basis.

6th Most Popular Article: The Role of Health Care Laundry in Infection Prevention

Environmental sources of pathogen organisms can sometimes be difficult to narrow down in a health care facility. One possible source of transmission is the laundry used, and not maintaining strict cleanliness attention can put both patients and workers at risk.

5th Most Popular Article: Monkeypox: CDC Raises Travel Alert, But How Much Threat Is it Really?

With more confirmed cases in the United States, and the CDC raising the travel alert to Level 2, should individuals be concerned? ICT investigates.

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