The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Level 2 travel advisory for more than 30 countries over Polio.
The health notice urges travelers to ensure vaccinations are up to date before visiting affected destinations.
As polio is spreading in Europe and elsewhere across the globe, authorities are taking measures to help prevent its spread — and these include ensuring safe travel ...
Although it is often thought of as a disease from the past, the CDC is warning travelers to be on alert for this serious ...
Global health alerts are up for polio. The CDC warns travellers to take extra care. Poliovirus is detected in many countries. This reminds everyone the fight is not over. Pharmacists play a key role ...
The CDC has issued a travel warning due to polio spreading in 32 countries worldwide, including several European, African, and Middle Eastern nations, as cases of circulating poliovirus spread. Find ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its polio travel advisory to a Level 2 for 32 countries where the disease is spreading.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a travel health notice for China after a spike in chikungunya infections, a mosquito-borne illness that can cause debilitating joint pain ...
A CDC advisory committee convened last week to revisit the agency’s draft infection control guidelines for healthcare facilities, voting in favor of recommendations that remain largely unchanged ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released the Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. Melissa Schaefer, MD, medical officer in ...
Michael Bell, MD, associate director for infection control at CDC‘s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, discussed the dangers of improperly using single dose vials and ways healthcare providers ...
Whether you are placing a central line, managing a Clostridioides difficile case, or keeping a surgical field sterile, you're likely following standards influenced by the Healthcare Infection Control ...