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In cold fact, some unknown number of hospital patients and nursing home residents die of influenza year in, year out because they were treated by health care workers who declined flu vaccination.
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The authors of a recently published provocative paper advocating mandatory influenza vaccinations for health care workers underscored seven primary truths to support the controversial recommendation.
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Initially sensationalized as a mystery bug, the pathogen that caused a recent outbreak that claimed 17 lives in an Toronto nursing home turned out to be one of the usual suspects: Legionella pneumophila.
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Soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have acquired a drug-resistant bacteria that is fueling nosocomial outbreaks in military hospitals, an epidemiologist recently reported in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Health care-associated transmission of influenza has been documented in many different patient populations and clinical settings.
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Surveillance indicates that community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) strains are beginning to appear with increasing frequency in certain parts of Europe.
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Roche is Under Pressure Over Its Antiviral Drug Tamiflu; ACE Inhibitors or ARBs for Prediabetics?; Xigris is Approved for Severe Sepsis; ACE Inhibitors Inhibiting Aortic Valve Stenosis?; FDA Actions
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