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Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response (2003)
Board on Global Health (BGH), Institute of Medicine (IOM). Off NCID site

 

Viral Hepatitis: What Every Teenager Needs to Know
Three-part illustrated slide set

 

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 Cover of EID Journal. Remedios Varo (1908–1963). La Llamada (The Call) (1961)
The Call, on this month's cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases, is inhabited by apparitions and has the eerie stillness and depthless unreality of a dream. A flaming female figure charged by a celestial body emanates energy and lights up the scene; around her neck, a single ornament, a chemist's mortar; in her hand, a laboratory flask, a retort. The lurid presence casts a glow on the dim walls of a hallway. From these walls, like a hallucinogenic distortion, a mournful array of human forms bulge forward, feet anchored to the floor, eyes downcast, bodies lost in outlandish folds: female phantoms, pillars and structural support, trapped in a paralyzing nightmare. Mysterious and provocative, the architectural stage is cluttered with conflicting clues. The walls are tall; the windows small and out of reach; the sky inflamed; the morbid folds props of oppression. Yet, the floor is elaborately tiled, the doorways arched, the steps well-tended. The stage is firmly cast, oppression is institutionalized. Emerging Infectious
Diseases

November 2004

Interim Influenza Vaccination Recommendations—2004–05 Influenza Season

 
Prevention for You and Your Family

Now that it's Flu season, learn more about the flu...

If you are pregnant...
You'll want to protect your baby from group B strep!

Prevention: For Healthcare

Clostridium difficile information

Guidelines for Preventing Health-Care-Associated Pneumonia, 2003

This document contains Part II - Recommendations, Part III - Performance Indicators

Sharps Safety
Workbook and tools promote sharps safety

2003 NNIS Report
PDF (189KB/18 Pages)

12 Steps to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance Among Hospitalized Children
New clinician fact sheet

More issues in healthcare settings news from DHQP

Infectious Disease Guidelines
Selected evidence-based infectious disease guidelines for use in healthcare and public health settings

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