Infection Prevention and Control
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President Trump signed an executive order May 29 that directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to review a scientific assessment by the Department of Health and Human Services on childhood vaccine recommendations from other…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released a report highlighting data on patients hospitalized during a 2025 measles outbreak centered in West Texas.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a Health Alert Network Health Update May 18 informing clinicians about testing available for patients with suspected hantavirus infection to include Andes virus.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released May 14 found that U.S.-reported dengue cases in 2024 increased 359% above the annual average from 2010-2023.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced May 14 that 41 people across the U.S. are being monitored for symptoms of hantavirus following an outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
In 2023, Ochsner Health launched a systemwide initiative to reduce severe pressure ulcers acquired in the hospital setting by addressing standardization challenges presented by variations in hospital size and capacity across the system.
The Utah measles outbreak has increased to 607 cases, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services reported April 24.
Flu and COVID-19 vaccination rates among all health care workers for the 2024-25 respiratory virus season was 76.3% and 40.2%, respectively, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released April 2.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention March 26 released a report on U.S. child vaccination coverage by age 2. The report found that coverage was similar among children born from 2021-2022 with those born in 2019-2020 but noted decreases for five vaccines.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Feb. 26 announced that an infant botulism outbreak that sickened 48 babies who consumed ByHeart formula is over.