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This award-winning blog supplements the articles in Hospital Infection Control & Prevention.
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APIC: Ebola response may leave patients vulnerable to more common infections
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Perspective: Ebola in the U.S. Dare we say the tide is turning?
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CDC adds respirators to Ebola regalia for health care workers to increase 'margin of safety'
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CDC issuing new infection control guidelines after debacle in Dallas
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Inconsistent, ‘overkill’ use of barrier precautions emerging as prime hypothesis in Ebola infection of two Dallas health workers
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CDC forms Ebola response teams, drops expectation that all hospitals can care for patients as second Dallas health care worker tests positive
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Ebola-infected health care worker in Dallas may have breached PPE removal protocol after performing 'high risk' procedures on index case
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IDWeek 2014: Emerging enterovirus D68 infects 664 children in 45 states, but remains a mystery on many fronts
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Perspective: Death of U.S. Ebola patient tragic, but one case does not an outbreak make
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Though frail residents lives at risk, nursing homes balk at providing worker flu shots
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