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650K die of flu-related respiratory diseases each year

January 3, 2018

Up to 650,000 deaths annually are associated with respiratory diseases from seasonal influenza, according to new estimates by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), WHO and global health partners.

Adults with work-related asthma at risk of pneumonia, other infections

January 3, 2018

Adults with asthma are at increased risk for pneumococcal disease, yet according to a new CDC study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, just 54 percent of adults with work-related asthma—asthma triggered by an exposure at work—have been vaccinated against the infection.

CDC urges health care workers to get the flu vaccine

September 30, 2016

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending that all health-care personnel (HCP) be vaccinated against influenza – this year and every year.

Swine flu fears are fanned again

January 4, 2016

Flu viruses found among pigs in China appear able to spread in humans and have the potential to cause a pandemic, researchers say.

CDC, partners to fight antibiotic resistance

November 17, 2015

Antibiotic resistance – the rise of deadly germs no longer stopped by the drugs that once controlled them – “threatens to take us back to the days when minor infections commonly killed,” according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), which has made combating antibiotic resistance a top priority.

Bloodborne pathogen exposure, safe patient handling among healthcare worker safety priorities

AOHP releases 2015-2017 Public Policy Statement

August 20, 2015

On behalf of healthcare workers across the nation and beyond, the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare (AOHP) has released its 2015-2017 Public Policy Statement, which specifically targets health and safety concerns in healthcare.

Ebola vaccine trial begins in Sierra Leone

6,000 health and other frontline workers will receive the vaccine

April 15, 2015

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in partnership with the Sierra Leone College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) and the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), is now enrolling and vaccinating volunteers for the Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola (STRIVE).

Measles cases in the United States reach 20-year high

CDC urges vaccination as summer travel season approaches

May 30, 2014

Two hundred and eighty-eight cases of measles were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States between Jan. 1 and May 23, 2014. This is the largest number of measles cases in the United States reported in the first five months of a year since 1994.

Dispel these flu myths

January 12, 2014

Myth #1: Flu shots cause the flu. Fact: The flu vaccine used in the United States is made from inactivated viruses that cannot cause the flu.

Weekly news round-up

December 21, 2013

Good news about the aging workforce, the Obama administration accused of delaying rulemaking for political purposes and we don’t approve of speeding – even though we do it. These were among the top EHS-related stories featured on ISHN.com this week.

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