Emergency nurses routinely care for patients before the cause of their symptoms is clear. They make decisions with the ...

Healthcare providers should consider a diagnosis of plague in patients who have symptoms consistent with the disease and who live, or have recently traveled to, the western United States or other ...

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 ...

In recognition of Emergency Nurses Week, NETEC spoke with two emergency nurses who bring their frontline experience to special pathogen preparedness. A new study published in Infection Control & ...

In this episode of Transmission Interrupted, host Jill Morgan, RN, invites Gavin Harris, MD, and Gaby Frank, MD, to discuss their recent New England Journal of Medicine review of Andes virus, covering ...

New World screwworm may sound like something from a horror movie, but it’s a real and potentially devastating threat to livestock, wildlife, pets, and even humans. In this episode of Transmission ...

Participants on the “Introduction to the 2024 Joint Commission Standards for Infection Control” webinar submitted questions to our subject matter experts. Many of the questions were answered during ...

Step inside one of the most unique corners of American healthcare as Transmission Interrupted takes you behind the scenes of the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center ...

The complex interplay between climate change, ecosystems, and human activities can create conditions that favor the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, posing significant challenges to public ...

In this timely episode of Transmission Interrupted, host Jill Morgan sits down with Dr. Alex Isakov, Medical Director of the Emory Grady EMS Biosafety Transport Program, to explore the unique ...