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Flu Could Return With a Vengeance

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:23:05 PDT

The Obama administration is warning the public to prepare themselves for a possible swift return of the influenza A(H1N1) virus this fall. The announcement was made today at the H1N1 Flu Preparedness Summit, held to prepare states for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of H1N1 flu. The summit was hosted by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, ...

HAIs and Nurse Staffing Ratios

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:48:22 PDT

The New York State Nurses Association is promoting legislation that would require hospitals to report the number of nursing staff they have available to patients every day during every shift. The association says that New Yorkers deserve to know patient-to-nurse ratios in their local hospitals, and also point to how staffing ratios can impact healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs). The association says ...

Do You Know Where Your Handbag Has Been?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:50:23 PDT

I wanted to give a shout-out to our Musing About Microbes blogger, Nancy Haberstich, who just presented the readers of our GermStop blog, One Mother to Another, with a very interesting tidbit about the contamination of handbags. I’m one of those gals who is careful not to let my handbag touch those surfaces that have a decidedly strong “ick” factor ...