Viral Infections
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Patient Safety Alert Supplement
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Bioterrorism Watch: Bioterrorism forensics - The burden of proof
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Bioterrorism Watch: Building a bridge over the abyss - Will bioterrorism help bring disjointed health system together?
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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Updates: Smallpox vaccine trial; D4T phenotypic resistance; VAQTA withdrawal
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Updates: Fungal Prophylaxis in Preemies; nongonococcal urethritis; hepatitis E
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CDC, NIH lab lapses with deadly agents lead to calls to halt research
A recent series of stunning lapses and oversights in federal research labs working with deadly pathogens and potential bioterror agents has heightened calls for a moratorium on such research until biosafety and security can be assured. -
CDC mulling hep B shots in nursing homes
In light of continuing outbreaks of hepatitis in ambulatory and long-term care, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending hepatitis B virus vaccination for diabetic residents of nursing homes. -
The bottom of the iceberg: Is there a hidden hepatitis epidemic beneath all of the outpatient outbreaks?
Once thought of as shocking outliers, the continuing hepatitis outbreaks in ambulatory care settings and clinics increasingly suggest that for every cluster detected, many more infections acquired in health care are being missed due to inadequate surveillance systems and lack of public health resources to investigate individual cases. -
Wisdom Teachers: Grief to grace: Loss of son drives mother's message
It is no small sign of hard-earned wisdom that the mother who has lost a loved one to a health care-associated infection (HAI) doesn't want to be cast in angry hues, decrying the failure of a health system that took her 27-year-old son Josh along with some 100,000 other patients felled by infection in 2006.