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CloroxPro Launches Placemaking Partnership
CloroxPro, a provider of commercial cleaning and disinfecting technologies, announced at the ISSA Show in Las Vegas Monday a partnership with Project for Public Spaces that will help advance its...
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Clorox Healthcare’s Commitment to the AMR Challenge
At the United Nations General Assembly the U.S. government launched the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Challenge, a yearlong effort to accelerate the fight against antimicrobial resistance across the globe that calls...
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Pathogen Drama in the Emergency Department
As a devoted fan of the TV drama ER, and of course throughout my career as a scientist, I have always been intrigued by hospital Emergency Departments (ED). Each year,...
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Spread of Measles Accelerates
Since the advent of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in 1963, the incidence of measles has declined to such low levels that most healthcare workers today have never...
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Dirty Toys in Healthcare Are No Fun
Play has an important role in the healthy development of children. While toys are often the instruments of play, they can also be instruments of disease transmission. It is not...
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Timeout, MRSA. How to Select the Right Disinfectant.
Infection prevention isn’t just important in healthcare settings — it is also crucial in gyms and athletic facilities. An organism that creeps up on athletic trainers and is often top...
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My Top Two Infection Control Takeaways from APIC’s Annual Conference
More than 5,000 infection preventionists and healthcare professionals recently flocked to Philadelphia to attend the 46th Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). With...
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Candida auris — An Emerging and Difficult Threat
Candida auris (C. auris) is receiving national media attention, and was a hot topic at the recent SHEA 2019 and APIC 2019 conferences, where infection prevention researchers discussed how to...
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Decoding Ebola as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
On July 17, 2019, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was declared a Public Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO)....
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What Can the U.S. Learn from Australia’s 2019 Flu Season?
Over the last few months, Australia has been reporting unusually high numbers of influenza virus cases compared with the same period in previous years. Some alarming headlines suggest that the...