Another aspect of infection control is the psychological impact of isolation precautions on patients. A study focusing on patients under isolation found that these precautions could negatively ...

Scarbro has multiple immune disorders, making her vulnerable to infection. "Any minute anybody ... these were the precautions I needed to take." Most Americans have developed some level of ...

Use Protective Gear – If you work in poultry farming or handle birds, wear gloves, masks, and other protective clothing to ...

Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus together with the Orange County Department of Health (OCDOH) recently issued some tips ...

Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professors of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...

U.S. health officials are telling Americans to take precautions if they travel to Uganda because of an Ebola outbreak.

Patients with suspected tuberculosis (TB) require special precautions in healthcare facilities, and cases of TB have been rising in the US over the past several years. These precautions include ...

Poultry farmers have been on high alert watching the avian influenza devastate the country. A commercial poultry farm in ...

These precautions include isolating persons with suspected TB in patient rooms with specialized air handling known as airborne infection isolation rooms. To improve our ability to assess patients ...