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	<title>Hospital Infection Control &#187; mortality</title>
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		<title>Baby boomers: HCV is a killer, get tested and seek treament</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 12:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to issues in both diagnostics and surveillance, many hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are going undiagnosed and untreated, with some progressing to mortality at a surprisingly young age, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. “New infections continue...]]></description>
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		<title>Another cytokine storm?  Revisiting those severe infections in the obese during the 2009 flu pandemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 03:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in the 2009 influenza A H1N1 pandemic obese patients comprised a surprisingly high percentage of serious infections for reasons that could not be immediately explained. Obesity was an independent risk factor for the flu infected, increasing the likelihood of hospitalization,...]]></description>
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		<title>CRE superbug continues to increase, with infections beyond the hospital, high mortality rates</title>
		<link>http://hicprevent.blogs.ahcmedia.com/2013/03/06/cre-superbug-continues-to-increase-with-infections-beyond-the-hospital-high-mortality-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relatively uncommon in the United States before 2000, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) continue a dramatic increase in health care settings, moving across the health care continuum and causing infections that are difficult to treat and have high mortality, the Centers for...]]></description>
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		<title>HIV by state: Where you live, where you die</title>
		<link>http://hicprevent.blogs.ahcmedia.com/2011/11/09/hiv-by-state-where-you-live-where-you-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS mortality data highlight disparities between states, suggesting differences in HIV treatment and care, a new study shows.1 Investigators compared HIV/AIDS data from 37 states that have collected confidential HIV reporting data for most of the past decade. They found...]]></description>
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		<title>Do 400,000 people a year die of infections in LTC?</title>
		<link>http://hicprevent.blogs.ahcmedia.com/2011/05/23/do-400000-people-a-year-die-of-infections-in-ltc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 12:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heathcare Associated Infections (HAIs)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infection deaths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reviewing the literature, studies of infections in long term care sometimes cite  staggering mortality figures like  “nearly 400,000 deaths annually.” Is the mortality of infections in long term care really four-fold that of the 100,000 patients who die annually of...]]></description>
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