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 ...
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 ...
As the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda continues to spread — with over 2,000 cases and more than 600 deaths — host Jill Morgan sits down with Dr. Tom Geisbert ...
The National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) announced the second round of health care facilities selected to receive funding through the National Special Pathogen ...
In a recent episode of Transmission Interrupted, host Jill Morgan, RN, Site Manager at the Emory Serious Communicable Diseases Unit, talks with Katie Willet, MD, FACEP, Associate Professor, UNMC ...
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 ...
Emerging infectious diseases continue to challenge healthcare systems around the world. While the likelihood of encountering a patient with a high-consequence infectious disease (HCID) remains low for ...
In this episode of Transmission Interrupted, host Jill Morgan and acclaimed author and former paramedic Kevin Hazzard dive into the complex world of outbreak response, biocontainment, and the unsung ...
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