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The numbers of households with pets, both traditional such as dogs and cats, as well as exotic pets, are increasing in many countries across the world. In addition, data obtained from media sources note a trend in the percentage of these pets sleeping in, or on, the owner's bed.
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Two children were diagnosed with japanese encephalitis (JE) in the United States in July 2010. The first child, aged 11 years, had onset of fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, and neck pain 4 days after returning from a 21-day trip visiting relatives in the Philippines.
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Approximately 108,000 ethnic Nepalese people were forced to move from their long-standing homes in Bhutan in the 1990s and have since been living within refugee camps in Nepal. Since 2008, approximately 30,000 Bhutanese refugees have resettled in the United States, and more are expected to follow.
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In this issue: Calcium supplements and MI; birth control pills and VTE; ACE inhibitors and breast cancer risk; spending on pharmaceuticals; and FDA actions.
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Of 150 patients with hematogenous vertebral osteomyelitis, 92 (61%) underwent biopsy 60 (65%) needle and 32 (35%) open. Imaging studies revealed discitis in 75%, vertebral osteomyelitis in 70%, and epidural abscess in 44% of patients.
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The headlines once again warn of a new superbug threatening mankind.
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Hospitals should provide pertussis vaccines to their health care workers free of charge, but should still treat employees with antibiotics if they have unprotected exposure to patients with pertussis and work with patients at high risk, such as young infants, a federal vaccine advisory panel says.
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The Joint Commission has amended an infection control standard that called for hand hygiene compliance of more than 90%, conceding that the expectation was too high after a group of eight leading hospitals could muster only an 82% rate in a performance improvement project.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have determined that electronic-eye faucets, which presumably lower bacterial hand contamination via hands-free usemay actually endanger high-risk patients with Legionella infection.
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New Delhi carbapenemase-1 (NDM-1) is increasingly seen in media reports as the organisms that produce metallocarbapenemase, which are most prevalent in South Asia but have now appeared in many parts of the world including the United States.