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Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 78, Issue 10, Page 3409-3426, October 2022.

On 30 September 2020, the French Guiana Regional Health Agency (ARS) reported the first detection of Oropouche virus (OROV) in French Guiana. On 22 September 2020 the Pasteur Institute in Cayenne (a member of the French National Reference Laboratory

As the year comes to a close, America's health protection agency, CDC, looks back at our nation's health by the numbers. With dramatic breakthroughs in science and technology, 2013 has been a successful year in public health.

We would like to commend the contribution of Golling and colleagues who in the American Journal of Infection Control present a retrospective observational review of peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) insertion by out-of-hospital clinicians in

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is primarily spread person-to-person via contact with infected respiratory droplets.1 It is estimated that an individual may be infectious prior to becoming symptomatic.2 Areas with crowded work spaces and

As many Haitian-Americans go to Haiti to visit family and friends to celebrate All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reminds travelers to take precautions to protect themselves from cholera, which has been

As of August 27, 2019, 215 possible cases of severe pulmonary disease associated with the use of electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette, products, have been reported by 25 states and additional pulmonary illnesses are under investigation.

A global pandemic of novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was declared by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The first reported death from COVID-19 in the United States was an End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patient1. Accumulating data show

Current disease outbreaks highlight the urgent need for every country to ramp up its care systems, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief told journalists on Wednesday.

Candida auris is a multidrug-resistant fungus that has led to health care–associated outbreaks globally. Contact investigations for new cases of Candida auris are a recommended infection prevention practice; however, there is limited knowledge and