Infection Control

As bundles of severe echovirus infections pop up in at least three countries, U.S. infectious diseases experts are seeing a small increase in enterovirus cases, especially among children, NBC News reported July 6. 

Physicians are noting brain blood vessel issues and recurrence among the dozens of people who contracted fungal meningitis linked to two cosmetic clinics in Mexico, NBC News reported July 3. 

Here are 12 infection outbreaks, warnings and updates Becker's covered in June:

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova L.J. Murphy Children's Hospital eliminated central line-associated bloodstream infections among its patients for 300 days during 2021 and 2022. 

Cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA, rose 41 percent during the pandemic and account for around 10 percent of hospital-associated infections. Its pandemic-induced rise has led experts to revise infection prevention guidelines for clinicians, according to a…

Twenty years after the U.S. noted eight locally acquired malaria cases, Florida has confirmed four malaria infections and Texas has seen one in the last two months, the CDC said June 26. 

Officials at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are monitoring a COVID-19 outbreak among patients and staff members.

When it comes to healthcare-acquired infections, a perfect score is zero. But while trying to keep HAIs — such as central line bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections and Clostridioides difficile infections — as low as possible, the goal of…

Teams at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai's Marina del Rey Hospital will soon undergo emergency department drills that will focus on infection control and prevention efforts if — or when  — a patient shows up with symptoms indicative of a highly contagious…

Physicians from Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston published a dissenting opinion in the New England Medical Journal on the widespread removal of mask policies in medical settings across the country.…