by admin | Jan 29, 2020 | Outbreaks
Originally Published by Healthline Chinese scientists have identified a previously unknown type of coronavirus as the cause of a recent pneumonia outbreak in the city of Wuhan, according to state media. The current situation follows the severe acute respiratory...
by admin | Jan 29, 2020 | Infection prevention
Originally Published by The Kansas City Star For six hours in a Saint Luke’s Hospital emergency room recently, Dakota Allen worried that he might become a fatal pneumonia statistic. He’d been coughing for weeks. “I overlooked it,” said the 20-year-old who works two...
by admin | Jan 6, 2020 | Cold and flu, Infection prevention
Originally Published by Parents Flu season is in full swing. The CDC is reporting that 30 states—especially southern states like Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina—are already seeing flu activity. A preliminary estimates...
by admin | Jan 6, 2020 | Preventing germs, Viruses
Originally Published by Steamboat Pilot & Today While the common cold might be the viral infection that most often affects children, other viruses can wreak havoc on your child’s health, especially during the winter months. Dr. Patrick Grathwohl, a pediatrician in...
by admin | Dec 19, 2019 | Viruses
Originally Published by The New York Times Two days before my 37th birthday, I received the following bone-chilling email from my daughter’s elementary school: “Dear Families, We wanted to inform you that we had an unusually high number of students across all grades...
by admin | Dec 16, 2019 | Bacteria, Outbreaks
Originally Published by The Livingston Ledger Twelve people in a five-state outbreak of E.coli believed to be linked to contaminated soy nut butter. One of those who became ill was a 13-year-old New Jersey girl. According to the Centers for Disease Control and...
by admin | Dec 6, 2019 | Fungus
Originally Published by NJ.com A deadly drug-resistant fungus is spreading in New Jersey. Candida auris, which is typically found in healthcare facilities that take care of patients with ventilators like hospitals and nursing homes, is causing serious infections...
by admin | Dec 3, 2019 | Germs
Originally Published by News4SA New numbers from poison control centers across the country show they’ve received more than 14,000 phone calls this year about children ingesting hand sanitizer. The Trouble Shooters learned even ingesting a small amount is enough to...
by admin | Dec 3, 2019 | Outbreaks
Originally Published by The Watchdog A new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention bears a grim warning about deadly antibiotic-resistant fungi and bacteria, also known as superbugs. “A lot of progress has been made, but the bottom line is that...
by admin | Dec 3, 2019 | MRSA
Image: Washington University School of Medicine Originally Published by Outbreak News Today Once rare, the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infects hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. each year and kills about 20,000. Antibiotic...
