One finding that slid under the radar recently in a CDC report on the surging epidemic of Clostridium difficile was that 94% of the infections were linked to health care. That’s logical enough, you may well note, but consider that…
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What if they gave an epidemic — and nobody cared?
September 7, 2011 – 8:02 pm
Three decades ago this year, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia — an opportunistic infection then virtually unheard of in healthy individuals — was diagnosed in five gay men in Los Angeles. These were the first official cases of AIDS, an historic epidemic…
MRSA patients urge SHEA, CDC to declare an epidemic
April 1, 2011 – 1:39 pm
A patient advocacy group called the MRSA Survivors Network is urging the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “to finally declare MRSA an ongoing epidemic” during SHEA’s annual conference that begins…