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Whooping Cough Hits Pennsylvania School
Recently, another student has reportedly come down with pertussis, also known as whooping cough, at a Montgomery County school in Pennsylvania. The school sent letters home to parents notifying them of the disease and parents have been encouraged to monitor their children for any signs of the illness. Pertussis is a respiratory illness and is a very contagious disease caused by a type of ...
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CDC Lists Antibiotic Resistance Threats in Puerto Rico and the Rest of the United States
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States each year and more than 35,000 people die as a result. In addition, nearly 223,900 people in the United States required hospital care for Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections and at least 12,800 people died from those infections as recently ...
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Antibiotic Resistance Threats Identified by the CDC and the Importance of Infection Control Procedures and Education
While much of the media’s attention has been focused on the novel coronavirus that spread across the globe this year, SARS-CoV-2 is not the only emerging threat. Just before reports of the initial outbreak of COVID-19 last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an update to the agency’s first Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States (AR Threats ...
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