APIC Creates Emerging Infectious Disease Playbooks

APIC Creates Emerging Infectious Disease Playbooks

May 2, 2023 | Infection Control, News

To help infection preventionists (IPs) and epidemiologists operationalize prevention efforts for emerging infectious disease threats, APIC is launching a series of “playbooks” that can be downloaded and customized for use in individual healthcare facilities. Created...
US flu activity higher, more pediatric deaths reported

US flu activity higher, more pediatric deaths reported

Nov 29, 2022 | News

The nation’s flu markers for the week ending Nov 19 climbed higher, with most of the continental US reporting high or very high activity and reports of five more deaths in children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its latest...
Prions: New possible therapeutic target

Prions: New possible therapeutic target

Sep 20, 2022 | News

Prion diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (‘mad cow disease’), are lethal neurodegenerative infectious diseases that affect humans and other mammals and for which there is currently no cure. These diseases are caused by the accumulation of...