In a nutshell A year-long study of hospital sink drains found 67 different bacterial species living there, many resistant to ...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), an association for infection prevention and control (IPC) professionals, expresses deep concern over the recent ...

"The last thing that we wanna do is a patient to come into the hospital and leave sicker than what they were," Tennille said. The hospital's environmental services team employs rigorous cleaning ...

Aches and pains. Pain (think: body aches and a sore throat) is also a tip off that you’re dealing with a virus like a cold.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working to confirm the initial positive test. Scientists are closely watching the new infections in Nevada because ... virus that infected her, ...

Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with severe infections in humans, according to the Nevada Department of Agriculture.

In some cases, such infections may become systemic, affecting multiple tissues and systems throughout the body. A person should contact a dentist at the first sign ... and stop it from spreading ...

The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across ...

The risk is variable and depends on a patient’s immune status, the local prevalence of various pathogens, and the infection control practices and antimicrobial stewardship utilised during ...

Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if ... health organizations in other countries to immediately stop distributing H.I.V. medications purchased with U.S. aid.

What many people think of as the “stomach flu” has nothing to do with influenza – norovirus is an illness in your gut, and the flu is a respiratory infection. This may be the biggest myth ...