Facilities masked and isolated patient actors simulating avian flu in 60% of unannounced drills, according to a CDC study published Oct. 1. The study, which appeared in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, analyzed 73 drills of a simulated…
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The State Department and CDC are closely monitoring reports of a suspected pneumonic plague in Russia that may have killed a laboratory researcher and exposed nearly 200 people, News Nation Now reported Oct. 5. “We are aware of reports of…
The Legionnaires’ disease rate climbed 19% in 2025 to nearly its 2018 peak, according to provisional CDC data. The CDC monitors legionellosis cases through two surveillance systems — the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System and the Supplemental Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance…
Google AI’s flu forecasting model was the top-performing model among 39 at forecasting flu-related hospital admissions during the 2025-26 season, the CDC found. The CDC’s FluSight program combines weekly submissions from government, industry and academic teams that predict flu hospital…
In 2023, Baton Rouge, La.-based FMOL Health introduced a rapid sepsis diagnostic test, and since then, the 10-hospital system has reduced sepsis mortality 24% and saved a life every three days. Since rolling out the diagnostic test across the organization,…
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A recent study found 11.3% of healthcare personnel surveyed reported persistent long COVID symptoms. The study, published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, used electronic surveys to collect symptom data at three and six months post-infection from 1,496 healthcare…
Only 13% of hospital-onset sepsis cases met current U.S. criteria for reportable healthcare-associated infections, but an expanded surveillance system could catch many of these potentially preventable events, a recent study found. The study, published Sept. 17 in JAMA Network Open,…
The CDC updated its Viral Respiratory Infections guidance Sept. 11 and changed recommendations for managing healthcare personnel who are exposed to or infected with common respiratory viruses. The recommendations apply to respiratory viruses such as COVID-19, influenza, RSV, parainfluenza, rhinovirus,…
If hospitals with higher infection rates for heart surgery patients reduced rates, they could prevent about 2,600 infections annually and reduce Medicare spending by $441 million, Michigan Medicine researchers found. The study, published Aug. 6 in The Journal of Thoracic…
A Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality program cut hospital-onset bloodstream infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by 65%. The study, published Aug. 27 in JAMA Network Open, implemented the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety…