Category: Infection Control

Twenty-three infants in Tennessee were diagnosed with parechovirus over a six-week period this spring, NBC News reported July 28.

The CDC is warning physicians and public health experts of a potentially deadly bacterium that was detected in U.S. soil and water samples for the first time.

The pandemic has put a significant toll on infection prevention professionals working in hospitals and other healthcare settings nationwide, according to a study published July 13 in the American Journal of Infection Control.

A patient at Cleveland Clinic defended the system’s enforcement of its mask mandate July 13 and said he felt a previous patient’s complaint of lax enforcement was an exception, “not the rule” at Cleveland Clinic. 

Antimicrobial-resistant infections have increased during the pandemic, with deaths rising by 15 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to the CDC’s “COVID-19: US Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance, Special Report 2022.”

Cleveland Clinic has allegedly failed to enforce its mask mandate, a patient at Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Center wrote to Cleveland.com July 8. 

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston found only one documented case of monkeypox transmission after exposure in a healthcare setting outside endemic regions after conducting a literature review that covers the last two decades. 

More than two years into the pandemic, it’s widely accepted that COVID-19 spreads through airborne transmission and that the risk of contracting the virus from a contaminated surface is low. Despite this knowledge, Americans can’t seem to let go off cl…

Isolation gowns worn by healthcare staff may fall short of safety standards, leaving workers with a greater risk of infection, Scientific American published July 5.

The Joint Commission has issued guidance to help prevent healthcare professionals from using packaged sterile supplies and devices that are expired or compromised.