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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a press release pertaining to the number of cases of measles...
Sep 05, 2018 | Kerry Premo
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health and regulatory officials, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s...
Sep 04, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
On Thursday August 23rd, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated recommendations for the coming...
Aug 27, 2018 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
Recently, in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, authors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Aug 23, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The number of reported cases of congenital syphilis (CS) has increased every year since 2012, and from 2012 to 2016, the rate has...
Aug 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Epi/Vac Pink Book Webinar Series aims to provide an overview of...
Aug 13, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is assisting the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), the Centers...
Aug 07, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) released two new videos on biomonitoring and environmental health testing: What...
Aug 01, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Antibiotic Stewardship has launched the second of a four-section...
Jul 25, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a press release pertaining to the number of cases of measles in the U.S. According to CDC, 107 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 21 states and the District of Columbia in 2018. Comparatively, in all of 2017, 118 people from 15 […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health and regulatory officials, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to kosher chicken. As of August 27, 2018, 17 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- have been reported from four...
On Thursday August 23rd, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated recommendations for the coming 2018-2019 influenza season. These recommendations were featured in a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), “Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.” Updated information for the...
Recently, in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, authors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that antibiotics are the leading cause of emergency department (ED) visits for adverse drug events in children. Antibiotics save lives and are critical tools for treating infections, like those that can lead to sepsis, but […]
The number of reported cases of congenital syphilis (CS) has increased every year since 2012, and from 2012 to 2016, the rate has increased 87%. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has intensified its efforts to address this concerning trend. For example, CDC recommends syphilis screening for all women at the first […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Epi/Vac Pink Book Webinar Series aims to provide an overview of the principles of vaccination, general recommendations, immunization strategies for providers, and specific information about vaccine-preventable diseases and the vaccines that prevent them. Each one-hour webinar explores a chapter from the 13th edition of...
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is assisting the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in planning a series of PulseNet/OutbreakNet Regional Meetings...
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) released two new videos on biomonitoring and environmental health testing: What is biomonitoring? Biomonitoring is the process of testing people for chemicals in their body to determine how exposure might impact their health. But what exactly does that mean? How are public health and environmental health laboratories involved? […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Antibiotic Stewardship has launched the second of a four-section web-based training course on Antibiotic Stewardship, each section of which will be released in 2018. This section is comprised of four modules that will cover: What we know about outpatient antibiotic use in the United States Cases […]
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