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When health care workers and patients speak different languages, the best available option may be to turn to various Web - based automated translation tools.

Analysis of the viral sequences suggests that one of these introductions, which has been linked to several EVD cases in Monrovia, including health care workers at Redemption Hospital, likely led to the largest wave of cases in Liberia.

The results showed that both health care workers who had annual vaccination, and those who did not get annually vaccinated, had the same second line defence, but those who had gotten annual vaccines had a better first line defence.

«It's very unfortunate and could potentially be counterproductive by preventing health care workers from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea from sharing their experiences and findings at one of the most important tropical disease meetings globally,» adds Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

Researchers at the Influenza Centre in Bergen have over a period of five years followed 250 health care workers.

Health care workers scheduled to fight Ebola in West Africa receive training at an old military base in Anniston, Alabama.

But after two U.S. health care workers fell ill in Liberia and received ZMapp, an experimental mix of monoclonal antibodies, the discussion took a turn.

Celebrities and professional athletes are among the few Americans with doctors and other health care workers at their beck and call.

The disease also affects health care workers in endemic areas, who may lack the necessary equipment to maintain barrier nursing precautions that can keep the disease from spreading.

They were worried, however, that trying out these drugs in Africa would be seen as racist and could increase mistrust toward health care workers, already a problem in battling the outbreak.

Also today, Novartis Japan posted a statement in Japanese on its website acknowledging the investigation and apologizing «to patients, their families, health care workers and citizens for causing great worry and trouble.»

Earlier discussions suggested that efficacy trials should recruit health care workers and first - line responders like those who do burials or track contacts of known infected people.

, including caring for survivors, keeping vigilant for reintroductions from Guinea or Sierra Leone, and training replacements for the doctors and health care workers who died in the epidemic.

WHO estimates that there are about 12,000 health care workers in the three affected countries and another 17,500 «community» responders.

«Our computer tool can help guide certain decisions about the short regimen,» Kendall says, «but scientists and health care workers still need to be really vigilant about gathering more data on how it's working and for whom it is working best as we begin to use it more widely.»

National Public Radio outlines some of the challenges the country still faces, including caring for survivors, keeping vigilant for reintroductions from Guinea or Sierra Leone, and training replacements for the doctors and health care workers who died in the epidemic.

The trial in Sierra Leone would not use a placebo but instead would offer groups of health care workers the vaccine at different points in time.

The World Health Organization and the Liberian ministry of health sent in trainers to teach health care workers how to safely do their jobs.

But the extreme precautions needed to treat Ebola are a new experience for most health care workers, and they need to practice extensively to learn the proper procedures.

It unanimously passed a resolution that declared the spread of the virus a «threat to international peace and security» and called on the world to send more health care workers and supplies to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, and not to isolate those countries.

«Mandatory policy boosts flu vaccination rates among health care workers.»

If hCoV - EMC used the same receptor, researchers would have a head start in understanding how it spreads and how to stop it — primarily by protecting health care workers.

Nationally, 63 percent of health care workers were immunized against the flu in the past two years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If true, the vaccine could potentially be useful in both an emergency response setting and as a longer - term tool to protect scientists who work with Ebola virus, Doctors Without Borders teams that typically lead Ebola responses, and health care workers in places where Ebola outbreaks could crop up.

Because these receptors are mainly found deep inside the human lung, patients developed very severe illness that frequently left them too sick to spread SARS to many others; the people most at risk were health care workers who take care of patients.

Hospitals can greatly improve their flu vaccination rate among health care workers by using a mandatory employee vaccination policy, according to a Henry Ford Health System study.

And 2 % should at least take care of the health care workers.

Evidence indicates that vaccination of health care workers can benefit patient health, leading to a move by many to consider mandatory influenza vaccination as a condition of employment or to require employees to wear a mask during influenza season.

Vaccination rates among health care workers are less than 50 %, well below the level necessary for herd immunity.

Employers planning to implement mandatory influenza vaccination policies for health care workers need to understand the implications, according to an analysis published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

In a small exploratory study, Miller found that health care workers were more likely to use the protocol after the training than before.

Many health care workers favour condition - of - service influenza vaccination policies.

Some health care workers couldn't afford to call in their reports, because they were paying the phone charges themselves; Rosling set up a small fund to pay for scratch cards that gave them airtime.

No one denies that health care workers are in a unique position to stymie — or spread — flu and other diseases.

One of the two U.S. health care workers who was treated with ZMapp, Kent Brantly, earlier received a blood transfusion from a 14 - year - old boy he had cared for and who had survived Ebola.

Unlike vaccines, antibody treatments are meant to provide short - term protection to health care workers and others at risk of exposure.

On Tuesday, an ethics committee at WHO declared it was ethical under the special circumstance to use unapproved Ebola treatments such as ZMapp, a mix of antibodies that has been tested in animals and was given to two U.S. health care workers who fell sick in Liberia.

Two months ago, when clinician Tim Flanigan arrived in Monrovia to help Liberia combat its Ebola epidemic, it took ambulances a few days to respond to calls, dying people were turned away from designated treatment units, health care workers ran short of personal protective equipment, and dead bodies were left in the street.

If health care workers don't get vaccinated, he says, «We're not doing our jobs.»

Smartphone dongles performed a point - of - care HIV and syphilis test in Rwanda from finger prick whole blood in 15 minutes, operated by health care workers trained on a software app.

As health care workers, they understood the risk, Garry says.

Kenneley's American Journal of Nursing article, «Clostridium difficile Infection Is on the Rise,» focuses on evidence - based steps recommended by the CDC that nurses and other health care workers, including those who prepare and deliver food, clean facilities or make deliveries, can take to confine the bacteria in hospitals and other settings where someone shows symptoms of the infection.

In addition to diagnosing the illness, they say that the tool could also potentially help health care workers track patients» viral loads in semen, breast milk and eye fluids after recovery.

But Chiu and his colleagues have found a way to speed up virus identification — a method they hope will one day help health care workers in remote areas identify new viruses as soon as they appear, as long as they are able to access the Web.

The announcement specifically mentioned the questions raised by the cases of Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, the U.S. health care workers who received a mix of monoclonal antibodies named ZMapp after they fell ill in Liberia.

Chiu's colleagues are working to get more DNA sequencers — and expertise to use them — into the hands of health care workers in potential virus hotbeds.

Health care workers should be first in line when vaccines against the swine flu virus are ready and approved, an expert panel at the World Health Organization concluded in a meeting last week.

And globally a total of 549 health care workers are known to have been infected with the virus, and 311 have died.

This could make BiliCam a useful tool for parents and health care workers in developing countries where jaundice accounts for many newborn deaths.

Plexiglass walls are installed in rooms, allowing doctors and health care workers to observe patients without suiting up in full protective gear.