Avian Flu Diary

Covering Pandemic and Seasonal Flu, Emerging Infectious Diseases, public health, community & Individual preparedness. NOTE: All AFD blogs are written by a human - any mistakes are solely mine.

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Monday, January 27, 2014

SHEA Infection Control Recommendations On HCW Attire

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MRSA - Photo Credit CDC PHIL # 8227 While exotic infectious diseases like bird flu make for fascinating study, in reality you are...

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Unnecessary Antibiotic Use & C. Difficile Infections

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C. difficile – Credit CDC PHIL # 6842 We’ve more evidence today on the perils of unnecessary antibiotic usage from a stu...

Friday, June 17, 2011

SHEA: Improving HCW Flu Vaccine Uptake

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# 5635 Hospital acquired infections are the bane of modern health care, with MRSA, C. Diff , garden variety staph , variou...

Thursday, February 03, 2011

APIC Calls For Mandatory Flu Vaccination For HCWs

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# 5282 APIC (the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. ) has joined the chorus of oth...

Thursday, September 09, 2010

AAP: Recommends Mandatory Flu Vaccinations For HCWs

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# 4887 The American Academy of Pediatrics is the latest professional medical organization to embrace the idea of making ye...

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

SHEA: Mandatory Vaccination Of Health Care Workers

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# 4855 The vaccination rate among health care workers (HCWs) against seasonal influenza runs abysmally under 50% , an...

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