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Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention
http://haicontroversies.blogspot.com/
In this blog two hospital epidemiologists at academic medical centers explore controversial issues related to controlling infections in healthcare and institutional settings.
- Added on: Sep 19th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Michael Edmond
- Listed in: Health Medicine
- Tags: infections infection control nosocomial infections infection prevention healthcare associated infections
Recent Posts
Water
After Mike's recent posts on food safety, he asked, "What's next?" As if on cue, the NY Times has a scary front pager on the safety of our water supply. About 20% of U.S. water treatment systems have violated the Safe Drinking Water Act in the last...
So how bad was the H1N1 pandemic?
According to a new paper in PLoS Medicine, Marc Lipsitch's modelling estimates that among persons with symptomatic H1N1:1 in 70 required hospital admission 1 in 400 required ICU care1 in 2,000 diedWith data in hand, he argues in an NPR piece that thi...
Slimmer faster
As if yesterday's posting on contaminated chickens wasn't bad enough, today the Wall Street Journal reports that Unilever is recalling 10 million cans of Slim-Fast due to potential contamination with Bacillus cereus. What's next?...
Scrooge!
A newspaper in the UK reports today that a hospital there has banned the display of Christmas decorations because they are an infection control hazard. What in the world is going on there with regard to their approach to infection control? Recall tha...
Influenza miscellany
Today's LA Times has an article on the effect that H1N1 influenza has had on the pork industry even though pigs haven't been part of the pandemic. On the other hand, here in Virginia, a flock of turkeys has been found to be infected with H1N1. Also i...
Carnivores beware!
Consumer Reports has released a study evaluating contamination of store-bought chickens. They tested 382 chickens from 100 grocery stores in 22 states. The results were appalling--62% of the chickens were contaminated with Campylobacter, 14% were con...
