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This award-winning blog supplements the articles in Hospital Infection Control & Prevention.
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MERS 'Super-Spreaders' Pose Threat to HCWs, Patients
Read More about MERS 'Super-Spreaders' Pose Threat to HCWs, PatientsU.S. EDs, hospitals are vulnerable to a similar scenario.
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Joint Commission joins Drug Stewardship Gold Rush with New Standard
Read More about Joint Commission joins Drug Stewardship Gold Rush with New StandardFollowing suit as a deemed authority of CMS.
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CDC Alert: Invasive Fungal Infections with High Mortality
Read More about CDC Alert: Invasive Fungal Infections with High MortalityGoing global: Deadly bug emerging on four continents.
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Protecting Patients, Harming Workers?
Read More about Protecting Patients, Harming Workers?The dilemma: Killing resilient bugs like C. diff without harming HCWs with powerful chemicals.
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Zika Linked to Six Devastating Pregnancy Outcomes in US
Three babies lost, three survive with defectsRead More about Zika Linked to Six Devastating Pregnancy Outcomes in US -
Update: CMS will issue Proposed Rule on Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship June 16
Infection preventionists and other clinicians will have 60 days to comment on proposed changes.Read More about Update: CMS will issue Proposed Rule on Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship June 16 -
APIC 2016: Two Cases of Mystery Outbreak Acquired in Healthcare Settings
Read More about APIC 2016: Two Cases of Mystery Outbreak Acquired in Healthcare SettingsCommon source of exposure for 66 cases remains unknown.
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Lab Worker Becomes First Case of Zika Transmission by Needlestick
Healthcare workers must be vigilant with infection control, needle safety.Read More about Lab Worker Becomes First Case of Zika Transmission by Needlestick -
Update: WHO Relents, calls for Expert Zika Panel to Decide Fate of Olympics
Read More about Update: WHO Relents, calls for Expert Zika Panel to Decide Fate of OlympicsIt makes sense. WHO stonewalling was starting to sound like Nixon during Watergate.
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Post Antibiotic Era? New E. coli Plasmid Defeats Last-Line Drug
Read More about Post Antibiotic Era? New E. coli Plasmid Defeats Last-Line DrugA sobering development that the CDC has been concerned about for some time.