CDC announced yesterday that it, along with 10 other national agencies and organizations, will collaborate with the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases in sponsoring the Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (including basic science, prevention, and control), June 23--25, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda hotel in Bethesda, Md.
CDC, in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Division of Research, has launched a study to learn about an unexplained skin condition known as Morgellons.
The latest case in Indonesia is a 16-year girl who was hospitalized Jan. 4. Of 117 cases to date in the country, 94 have been fatal.
Dr. Alfred Bartlett, shown here in a file photo taken with Ethiopian children after an HIV/AIDS presentation, said the study done in Pakistan will have a worldwide impact.
The approved test identifies methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacterium in two hours rather than two days.
If the 22 countries join a global plan aiming to treat 50 million people for TB in the next decade, they'll gain nine times in economic benefits what they spend on diagnosis and treatment, the report says.
The first Myanmar patient recovered, but Pakistan has reported its first two human deaths linked to the avian flu virus.
A man reported to be recovering Saturday in an eastern province is the father of a 24-year-old man who died of it Dec. 2. Human-to-human transmission is a possibility.
The program will focus on effective approaches to hepatitis prevention and management.
The infections often start as small red bumps that resemble pimples, boils, or spider bites.
The public health service of King County/Seattle prepared the guide because homeless people face significant disadvantages during health crises.
December 1, 2007, marks the 20th observance of World AIDS Day, an annual worldwide event established to increase awareness and education regarding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
At least 20 million people, including 500,000 U.S. citizens, died in the 1918 influenza pandemic. Today, as many as 36,000 Americans continue to die each year of what's commonly known as the flu and more than 200,000 are hospitalized. Most outbreaks in North America occur between October and May. The peak season is usually late December to early March.
"Countries need to brace themselves for a situation where up to 25 percent of the workforce may be ill at a given time," WHO's director-general said.
Experts say health workers' vaccination rates are far too low, and about 70 percent of them keep working when they are ill with the flu.
Very few individuals, families, companies, hospitals, cities, or even countries are properly prepared to prevent or minimize the human morbidity and mortality, the social disruption, and the economic consequences caused by the results of an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic.
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has been named one of four winners of the 2007 Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service.