Well, this is a disappointing story. In 2006 and 2008 California passed some legislation with the ultimate goal of limiting hospital acquired infections. Unfortunately, enforcement and use of the legislation has faltered, according to an article in the Sacramento Bee by Deborah Schoch: Deadly bacteria lurk inside hospital wards Not much positive to report here though …
Good Morning America is taking on bacteria. Bacteria that are found indoors. The report: GMA Germ Test Shows Public Seats Full of Bacteria – ABC News has some interesting bits and the video is nice in many ways. The bottom line – they found bacteria (by culturing) in all sorts of indoor locations. And they did …
Some new publications were just released by the CDC’s Journal Emerging Infectious Diseases relating to the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Understanding the Cholera Epidemic, Haiti Implications of the Introduction of Cholera to Haiti Vibrio cholerae in Traveler from Haiti to Canada I note I wrote about this recently in regard to the UN report discussing …
An automated search I have of Google News for “emerging infectious diseases” pulled up this: Orkin Issues Statement on Recent Bedbugs Study. In the press release Orkin discusses how they will help people deal with this new issue of bedbugs possibly carrying MRSA. The press release is actually not so awfully worded (compared to many). And …
Just a quick one here. The Google News archive has all sorts of interesting stuff in there. Much of it is not fully free / in the open but it is still interesting. For example, – check out this article reporting the first association of a bacterial association with “Legion disease”: St. Petersburg Times – Google …
Well this is disconcerting. A scientist who works for the Naval War College (Mark Lyles) has been doing research on dust from the War Zones in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait. And the results appear to be disconcerting. All sorts of elevated levels of toxins are reported to have been found in the dust. Though I …
A new paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B is a bit disconcerting. The paper “Skin as a potential source of infectious foot and mouth disease aerosols” is by Michael Dillon from Lawrence Livermore Labs (I have added the reference to the microBEnet collections at Mendeley and CiteULike). A bit more about the …
Some news agencies have recently been reporting that bedbugs may be doing something even more unpleasant than their normal unpleasantries. Many news sources are reporting on recent information from a Canadian group that looked at what microbes were found in bedbugs in one area. And what they found was pretty nasty. Basically, the deal is …
A new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology is not surprisingly getting a bunch of press “Bacterial Hand Contamination and Transfer after Use of Contaminated Bulk-Soap-Refillable Dispensers” by Zapka et al. I note the article is freely available online. Some of the news stories about this include: Bacteria-Laden Soap Not So Clean : Discovery …
A UN panel has issued a recent report on the cholera outbreak in Haiti. The report reviews genetic, genomic, epidemiological and other studies that relate to the origins of the cholera outbreak. The conclusion is a bit disconcerting – most likely the outbreak was introduced by UN personnel and was related to poor construction of …