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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please note: This episode was recorded before the recent hantavirus outbreak. A forthcoming NETEC podcast episode will provide expert insight into hantavirus transmission, clinical presentation, ...

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 ...

In this episode of Transmission Interrupted, host Jill Morgan leads a compelling conversation with leading experts at the intersection of air transport and high-consequence infectious disease (HCID) ...

Standard operating procedures (SOP) are essential in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for promoting consistency, safety, efficiency, and compliance with existing regulations. NETEC has developed a new ...