Twenty-one cases of bird flu have been identified in China, and six of the cases have resulted in death.
CDC began developing Botulism Antitoxin Heptavalent about 10 years ago, and it became one of the first medical countermeasures approved for advanced development and procurement under Project BioShield, in 2006.
Director Dr. Thomas Frieden will be joined by two other experts March 25 to discuss the rising threat posed by CRE and other types of infections.
CDC and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene confirmed that the transplant recipient and the donor had the same type of virus, a raccoon type.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey has agreed to adopt a disability rights policy that is based on CDC's Hepatitis B recommendations and to enroll two applicants in the UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School and the UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Its findings, published in Vital Signs, call on states, communities, medical facility CEOs, health care providers, and patients to take steps to prevent serious infections.
The Senate passed S. 242 late last week, and HELP Committee Ranking Member Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., urged the House to follow suit.
Data from the BLS Current Population Survey indicate absences were higher in January 2013 than in any month since February 2008.
It responds to the recent lifting of a yearlong moratorium on research on the avian influenza virus.
The Senate committee's chairman and ranking member joined three of their colleagues to introduce the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013 on Feb. 7.
Dr. Carissa Etienne will start a five-year term on Feb. 1. She has served as the Commonwealth of Dominica's chief medical officer and assistant director of the Pan American Health Organization.
His announcement said 19,128 cases of influenza have been reported in New York this season, more than quadrupling the total of 4,404 positive laboratory tests that were reported all of last season.
With 18 deaths so far in Massachusetts, the city of Boston declared a health emergency.
The hospital announced Dec. 31 that it will begin decontaminating isolation rooms with these devices, which disperse the bleaching agent into the air and, after all surfaces have been covered, break it down into its water and oxygen components.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said it will produce "a flexible, effective animal disease traceability system for livestock moving interstate, without undue burdens for ranchers and U.S. livestock businesses."
A lack of hand hygiene compliance is a major contributor to the high rates of health care-acquired infections in hospitals.
Sirturo is the first drug approved to treat multi-drug resistant TB. It works by inhibiting an enzyme needed by M. tuberculosis to replicate and spread throughout the body.
The Dec. 20 Health Alert Network notice re-emphasized guidance from a month earlier recommending “assertive clinical evaluation” of patients.
The Center for Disease Control has released its findings on the nature of acute gastroenteritis and the ways to prevent outbreaks in the winter months.
Companies are contesting moves to regulate sterilization products, claiming that there is not enough proof in favor of the move.