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Health care workers may be contributing to an undetected spread of hepatitis B and C in ambulatory care centers, a concern that has prompted an investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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With the unprecedented shortage of influenza vaccine this flu season, hospitals are scrambling to prepare for what may be a record number of flu patients presenting to their already overcrowded emergency departments (EDs) and for staff shortages due to record absenteeism.
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Its not a shot in the arm, but the nasal flu vaccine will be a new form of relief to some hospitals seeking vaccine supply.
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Faced with a severe shortage of influenza vaccine, its tempting to get as much as you can out of your doses. But two techniques that could extend flu vaccine are not recommended for use, according to officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, priority groups for vaccination with inactivated influenza vaccine this season.
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If infectious disease specialists used a color-coded alert system, the color would be on yellow, for elevated. And its edging up to orange. While the threat of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has subsided, public health experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the potential for pandemic influenza coming from a highly pathogenic avian influenza strain in Asia.
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The battle over annual fit-testing isnt over yet. The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) rule became effective on July 1, but two weeks later, the House appropriations committee approved an amendment that would prohibit OSHA from spending funds to enforce annual fit-testing.
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It took eight months for the supervisor in the hospitals pharmacy to realize that she and most of her co-workers had a persistent cough. That revelation began an employee health investigation, with employee health nurse Janet Abernathy, RN, COHN-S, on the trail of an indoor air culprit.
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Once a year, hospitals roll out the influenza campaign and try to immunize as many health care workers as possible. But therein lies a problem. Once a year may not be enough.
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