by admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Infection prevention
Originally Published by NPR Long before the novel coronavirus made its surprise appearance, the nation’s nursing homes were struggling to obey basic infection prevention protocols designed to halt the spread of viruses and bacteria they battle daily. Since the...
by admin | Feb 11, 2020 | Infection prevention
Originally Published by Consumer Reports With flu season in full swing—and responsible for an estimated 19 to 26 million illnesses and 10,000 to 25,000 deaths so far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—you may be a little more diligent than...
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 | Nov 19, 2019 | Antibiotics, Infection prevention
Originally Published by WCBI With the threat of infections that can’t be cured with antibiotics larger than previously thought, new antibiotics are needed. But few companies are working to develop them. Antibiotics are expensive to develop and because their use is...
by admin | Nov 19, 2019 | Infection prevention, Outbreaks
Originally Published by KFOR News 4 Every 15 minutes, someone in the United States dies of a superbug that has learned to outsmart even our most sophisticated antibiotics, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s about...
