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The Joint Commission Will Cite for Powdered Gloves
As previously reported in Hospital Infection Control & Prevention, the FDA has banned1 the use of all powdered gloves in healthcare due to latex allergies and other issues.
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IDSA Issues New Guidelines on Brain Infections
In new guidelines1 on healthcare-associated ventriculitis and meningitis following surgery, the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) calls for a collaborative approach to prevent and detect complex infections with a high percentage of adverse outcomes for patients.
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Will Vaccine Critics Be Emboldened?
Beneath all the bombast of the current political climate, there is one issue that has gained relatively little national attention but is of great concern to public health advocates – a reenergized attack on vaccine safety. Longtime vaccine safety critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and actor Robert DeNiro recently offered a $100,000 prize to anyone that can prove vaccines are safe.
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ANA Prepares for Return of Ebola – or Anything Else
It seems like only yesterday — and we can certainly be thankful it wasn’t — that many U.S. hospitals and healthcare workers felt unprepared to deal with a potential incoming case of Ebola linked to the outbreak in Western Africa.
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CDC: Zika Virus Will Hit U.S. Again as Weather Warms
Any hopes that Zika virus would strike and disappear like SARS and other episodic infectious disease outbreaks have been dashed by the CDC. Zika is fully expected be a mosquito-borne infection threat in the U.S. as the warmer months arrive, primarily in the form of a horrific panoply of birth defects to infants born to infected mothers.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Take Those Pins Out of Your Mouth!; How Many Sex Partners Is “Too Many”?; Rinse that GC Right Out of Your Mouth
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2016 Was Not a Good Year for New FDA Anti-infectives
In 2016, two anti-hepatitis C virus combination drugs were approved, as were monoclonal antibodies directed at bacterial toxins (anthrax toxin and Clostridium difficile toxin B), as well as an oral cholera vaccine.
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Treatment of Early Forms of Syphilis in HIV-Infected Patients
The results of this randomized trial provide support for the CDC recommendation of treatment of early stages of syphilis in HIV-infected patients with a single intramuscular 2.4-million-unit dose of benzathine penicillin.
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A Potpourri of Global Viral Activity — It’s Always Something
Ross River virus, Sindbis virus, Kyasanur Forest disease, Lassa fever, avian influenza, MERS-CoV, and Seoul virus are among the viruses currently causing outbreaks.
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Yellow Fever Redux
Yellow fever currently is epidemic in Brazil, and there is concern of further spread.