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Commonly available chemicals could be used to cause a food-borne disease outbreak that initially might confound investigators looking for a biological etiology, warn epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The durability of hepatitis B vaccination has not been well delineated.
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Influenza is the most frequently encountered vaccine-preventable infection in travelers to the tropics and subtropics.
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A snapshot of the infection control profession at a critical time finds ICPs drawing a median salary in the $50,000 to $59,999 range while facing down everything from looming pandemic flu to consumer demands for infection control report cards.
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The pandemic influenza plan recently unveiled by the Department of Health and Human Services specifies four major components of preparedness and response to pandemic influenza:
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The virulence of the 1918 pandemic strain was so extraordinary that there are accounts of people who felt well in the morning but were dead by nightfall.
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If avian H5N1 influenza emerges as a pandemic strain, no currently available vaccine will be completely protective. Therefore, the thrust of the nations pandemic influenza plan is aimed at rapidly producing vaccine and stockpiling effective antivirals.
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Based on ongoing research with the resurrected 1918 H1N1 pandemic virus, it appears that avian influenza H5N1 bird flu could rapidly adapt and spread through the human population with a few genetic changes that allow a transmission tipping point.
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Here are excerpts of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) disease-specific guidance on whether health care workers should use surgical masks or respirators.