The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
A new report is available from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) for enteric bacteria. The 2016-2017...
Jan 02, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
In September 2019, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), and...
Dec 30, 2019 | Christina Baum
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur in about one out of every 31 hospital patients. In 2015, the last year for which data...
Nov 21, 2019 | Erin Laird
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new practice guidelines for the Treatment of Drug-Resistant...
Nov 19, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to the public’s health, and local health departments (LHDs) have become increasingly...
Nov 18, 2019 | Christina Baum
On Wednesday, November 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United...
Nov 13, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO released the following statement in response to the newly released Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report, 2019 from the Centers...
Nov 13, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Today, NACCHO released a commentary in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) new report,...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2018 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI)...
Nov 06, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
A new report is available from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) for enteric bacteria. The 2016-2017 NARMS Integrated Summary was released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with its NARMS partners, CDC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The report’s new streamlined format will enable NARMS partners […]
In September 2019, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) were awarded a contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue the Leaders in Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Public Health (LEAP) Fellowship through the 2020-2021 academic...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur in about one out of every 31 hospital patients. In 2015, the last year for which data are available, this resulted in 72,000 deaths attributed to HAIs. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health threat which compounds the challenge of HAIs. Antibiotic-resistant infections cause over 35,000 deaths each year and nine […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new practice guidelines for the Treatment of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The guidelines were developed by CDC, the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and the European Respiratory Society. The […]
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to the public’s health, and local health departments (LHDs) have become increasingly involved to ensure their communities are prepared.
On Wednesday, November 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019, an update to a 2013 report that details the leading threats from antibiotic resistance in the U.S. The report reveals that drug-resistant gonorrhea remains an “urgent” a threat and another sexually transmitted infection, Mycoplasma […]
NACCHO released the following statement in response to the newly released Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report, 2019 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report reveals the threat of antibiotic resistance is bigger than previously projected and continues to grow, resulting in at least 2.8 million infections, more than 35,000 deaths, and billions […]
Today, NACCHO released a commentary in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) new report, Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019. The report shows that antibiotic-resistant bacteria and fungi cause more than 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths in the United States each year. That means, on average, someone in the […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2018 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Progress Report, a snapshot of how each state and the country are doing in eliminating HAIs, showing significant progress nationally in reducing several hospital-acquired infections and highlighting that prevention of these infections is possible. Using data from CDC’s...
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