Articles Tagged With: CDC
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Monkeypox Countermeasures Include Vaccines, PEP, and Antiviral Treatment
Although monkeypox cases are expected to increase as a result of the national call to clinicians to identify cases, the United States has no surfeit of medical countermeasures. These include two vaccines, a vaccinia immune globulin intravenous product, an antiviral drug, and large testing capacity.
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Special Report: Monkeypox Spread to 29 Non-Endemic Nations Unprecedented
The near-simultaneous emergence of monkeypox in the United States, Europe, and other regions where it rarely is seen has raised questions whether the virus could become endemic beyond West and Central Africa, where outbreaks are more common.
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Dozens of Healthcare Workers Infected in Bone Graft TB Outbreak
A national Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak caused TB seroconversion in 73 healthcare workers exposed to patients who underwent spinal bone grafts with a contaminated allograph product. No workers developed active infection, and all were successfully treated for this strain of TB, which was not drug resistant. -
OSHA Urged to Protect HCWs from Airborne COVID-19
The healthcare community is pushing back against OSHA adopting a more flexible final COVID-19 rule that could change with public health guidelines. The agency is finalizing its Emergency Temporary Standard to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19. -
Monitoring System Evaluates Effect of Racial Discrimination on Women
Racial discrimination and its effect on maternal and infant health will be addressed in the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), according to the authors of a recent paper. -
Bad to the Bone: Huge TB Outbreak Traced to One Donor
A massive Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak spread to 81 bone tissue recipients in 20 states, leading to multiple patient deaths and 73 latent infections in healthcare workers, investigators with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.
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OSHA Urged to Break with CDC in Finalizing COVID-19 Regulation
Despite pleas for flexibility by infection control groups, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is being urged by one of its more prominent former directors to adopt a tough standard that emphasizes airborne precautions to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19.
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CDC Updates Trichomoniasis Treatment Guidelines
Although trichomoniasis likely is the most common nonviral STI in the world, and is potentially dangerous for birth outcomes, it is largely overlooked in screening and diagnosis. The CDC recently updated its STI treatment guidelines, recommending women with trichomoniasis receive multidose metronidazole 500 mg twice daily for seven days. -
Title X Funding Cuts Could Worsen STI Rates
In March, the federal government sent Title X health providers a budget that will result in further slashes to programs that screen, test, trace, and treat people with STIs. STI rates are rising sharply for the sixth year in a row. -
The Long Road Back for Healthcare Workers
Although it is more than two years into the pandemic, long COVID is poorly understood, and treatment often focuses on improving specific symptoms like fatigue and shortness of breath. Even definitions of the condition vary.