An integrated infection prevention response can serve as an effective strategy to combat disease outbreaks often spurred by decreasing immunization rates, according to a study presented at the ...

Infections associated with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae have been increasing globally in recent times, and a new study published in The Journal of Hospital Infection examines these ...

University of Pittsburgh scientists working with UPMC infection preventionists have developed an infectious diseases detection platform that, over a two-year trial, was found to stop outbreaks, save ...

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On 13 August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. 1 The following day, the WHO declared the ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — An outbreak of the antibiotic-resistant infection MRSA circulated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital for more than three years and infected ...

Panic as deadly infection outbreak on 133-day cruise leaves over 100 people sick - Passengers’ world trip has been thrown ...

The outbreak blamed on "gym exposure" is relatively small, but it has helped push cases tied to the Legionella bacteria to a ...

Hospitals across China are overwhelmed with patients battling an airborne virus across 17 provinces - with children among the ...