Multistate Outbreak of Human Typhoid Fever Infections Associated with Frozen Mamey Fruit Pulp
August 12, 2010 CDC announced they are collaborating with public health officials in two states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate an outbreak of Salmonella infections, serotype Typhi. Salmonella Typhi is the bacterium that causes typhoid fever. There has been a total of 7 confirmed and 2 probable individuals infected with […]
Infection Control and Health Care Epidemiology
Infection control and health care epidemiology is the discipline concerned with preventing the spread of infections within the health-care setting. As such, it is a practical (rather than an academic) sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential (though often underrecognized and undersupported) part of the infrastructure of health care. Infection control and hospital epidemiology are […]