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2. Infection prevention and control - Wikipedia

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   Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is primarily composed of infection prevention and control professionals with nursing or medical technology backgrounds; The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America is more heavily weighted towards practitioners who are physicians or doctoral-level epidemiologists.

3. Barrier nursing - Wikipedia

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   Barrier nursing is a set of stringent infection control techniques used in nursing. The aim of barrier nursing is to protect medical staff against infection by patients and also protect patients with highly infectious diseases from spreading their pathogens to other non-infected people. Barrier nursing was created as a means to maximize ...

4. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and ...

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   Creation of scientifically valid infection prevention and control techniques for all healthcare personnel. Establishing education programs for healthcare personnel and the public in the field of infectious diseases. APIC has a central office governed by an elected board of directors comprising four officers and nine to 12 directors. In addition ...

5. Infection - Wikipedia

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   Chain of infection; the chain of events that lead to infection. There is a general chain of events that applies to infections, sometimes called the chain of infection [14] or transmission chain. The chain of events involves several steps – which include the infectious agent, reservoir, entering a susceptible host, exit and transmission to new ...

6. Eradication of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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   Video recording of a set of presentations given in 2010 about humanity's efforts towards malaria eradication. The eradication of infectious diseases is the reduction of the prevalence of an infectious disease in the global host population to zero. [1] Two infectious diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox in humans, and rinderpest ...

7. Despite warnings from bird flu experts, it's business as ...

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   New research and discussions with dairy farmers in the Central Valley suggests H5N1 bird flu is more widespread among people than the reported numbers indicate.

8. Sporadic disease - Wikipedia

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   They also do not show a recognizable common source of infection. [ note 1 ] In the discussion of non-infectious diseases , a sporadic disease is a non-communicable disease (such as cancer ) which occurs in people without any family history of that disease or without any inherited genetic predisposition for the disease (change in DNA which ...

9. Jannik Sinner defends Australian Open title, comfortably ...

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   World No. 1 Jannik Sinner defended his Australian Open title on Sunday, comfortably defeating Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-3 in the men’s final to secure his third career grand slam win.