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Analysts cite three mutually reinforcing errors that have dogged and delayed the governments national smallpox immunization campaign:
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While experts argue whether it is a prudent pause or a dangerous delay, one thing is clear: National smallpox immunization efforts have ground to a virtual stop with some 38,000 health care workers immunized.
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Health care workers who were vaccinated as children may be protected against fatal smallpox infection even if they declined to participate in recent immunization efforts, according to a recent study.
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Its every quality managers worst nightmare: Your facility is the lead story on tonights news because the wrong person was operated on. These days, if you operate on the wrong patient or do the wrong procedure, youre going to be on the front page of the newspaper, warns DeNene G. Cofield, RN, BSN, CNOR, administrative director of surgical services at Medical Center East in Birmingham, AL.
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Management of Lipodystrophy in HIV: A Mini-Update; Yersiniosis Outbreak From Chitterlings; Compassionate-Use Daptomycin Now Available
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Synopsis: Human metapneumovirus was found in 6.4% of respiratory tract specimens collected from children < 5 years of age who had no evidence of other respiratory tract pathogens.
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Synopsis: Up to 7% of B burgdorferi infections in the United States are asymptomatic.
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