Bacterial infections can imperil the fragile patients at hospitals‘ intensive care units. And a new study reveals an unlikely spreader: the health care workers who treat them. The standard sterile hospital garb typically thought to prevent infections isn’t helping.
Infectious Disease
The Latest Thing in Pills? Ones Made From Poop
But don’t worry. While the pills are extracted from feces, they contain everything but the unpleasant stuff.
Parents Not Vaccinating Kids Contributed to Whooping Cough Outbreaks
California’s worst episode of whooping cough, or pertussis, in 2010, likely spread among unvaccinated children to infect 9,210 youngsters.
Smell Test: Using Breath to Sniff Out Cancer, Infections and More
Anyone who has taken an alcohol-breathalyzer test knows what a snitch breath can be.
Should You Be Chicken About the New Chicken Flu?
Researchers discovered it before it became a pandemic, but there’s no vaccine for it yet
Single Bat with MERS Virus Discovered Near Original Outbreak Site
It just takes one, and so far that’s what scientists investigating the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak have found — a bat infected with the identical virus that was isolated from human patients.
More Compounding Pharmacy Products Recalled
Injections made by a Texas compounding pharmacy may be responsible for bloodstream infections, says the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Malaria Vaccine Shows Strongest Protection Yet Against Parasite
Healthy adults immunized with an experimental malaria vaccine may be completely protected from infection, according to government researchers.
New Middle Eastern Virus Linked to Camels
Anytime a novel virus infects human populations, scientists focus on tracing its origins. And this time their search led to the humped dromedary.
There’s a New Disease Spread by Ticks, and it’s Not Lyme
A new tick borne illness that is similar to Lyme disease, with symptoms including fever and muscle pain, are being reported among people in the U.S. for the first time this year.
Bugs Be Gone! What’s Really in Bug Spray
It’s a summertime dilemma — you want to douse yourself in bug repellant to keep off the pesky — and sometimes disease-causing — critters, but you also worry about whether all those sprays are dangerous for your health.
Novel Coronavirus: 5 Things To Know About the SARS-Like Infection
(Updated) On Tuesday, a 65-year-old French man died from a SARS-like infection, called novel coronavirus (nCoV). He was the first man in France to die from the infection, which he contracted after visiting Dubai. Meanwhile, …
Don’t Drink the Pool Water! It Contains a Surprising Amount of…Human Waste
Chlorine is supposed to take care of most of the microbes floating around in pools, but human waste, it seems, is stubbornly resistant to being sanitized.