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The fog of war is making it difficult to get a clear epidemiologic picture of why so many soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are developing highly resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections.
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Though a combination of contact and droplet infection control precautions are recommended in the federal influenza pandemic plans, questions remain about the possibility of airborne flu transmission.
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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is deepening its collaboration with the National Quality Forum (NQF) in an effort to create performance measures to that can be used by health care facilities to publicly report infection information data.
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Clinicians and public health officials in Michigan have identified both the fifth and sixth cases of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA), meaning four of the first six cases of the emerging pathogen have occurred in a single state.
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Anesthesiologists in hospitals with some of the best infection control programs in the country are reusing needles and contaminated multiple dose vials on multiple patients, according to survey results presented in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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Though human transmission of avian influenza A (H5N1) is extremely rare, there are two published investigations that strongly suggest the emerging virus was transmitted to health care workers in 1997, and from a patient to family contacts in 2004.
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As the nations hospitals scramble to implement pandemic plans, avian influenza A (H5N1) continues to wing its seemingly inevitable way toward North America in the flight of migratory birds. Those televised images of garbed decontamination teams and piles of dead chickens soon could be emanating from the United States.
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