Emergency nurses routinely care for patients before the cause of their symptoms is clear. They make decisions with the ...
Plague is a serious bacterial infection caused by Yersinia pestis. There are five forms of plague: bubonic, pneumonic, septicemic, meningeal and pharyngeal. Plague occurs primarily in semi-arid ...
Andes hantavirus is rare, geographically concentrated, and the only hantavirus currently known to spread person to person. In this episode of Transmission Interrupted, Jill Morgan, Dr. Gaby Frank, and ...
When a patient arrives at a hospital with symptoms consistent with a high-consequence infectious disease (HCID), timely laboratory testing is critical for diagnosis, clinical decision-making, and ...
Longtime colleagues reflect on the physician, mentor, founding NETEC leader, and preparedness pioneer—and the quiet confidence that guided his work. Dr. Bruce Ribner spent years preparing for a moment ...
In this episode of Transmission Interrupted, Jill Morgan joins Dr. Aneesh Mehta, Dr. Jay Varkey, and Dr. Colleen Kraft to remember Dr. Bruce Ribner, a physician, educator, hospital epidemiologist, and ...
Preparing healthcare workers to safely use personal protective equipment (PPE) for special pathogens presents a particular training challenge: The events are rare, the stakes are high, and the PPE and ...
Special pathogen preparedness can feel daunting. A full-scale exercise involving multiple departments, emergency medical services, public health partners, patient transport, and other agencies can ...
What does effective special pathogen preparedness look like in practice? In this episode, Jill Morgan talks with Darrell Ruby and Jackson Gruber, from NETEC’s Emergency Management workgroup, about the ...
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