Sentences with phrase «infected health care workers»

«We were the first people on the ground and our mission was to see and treat Ebola infected health care workers,» Malia said.

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Going forward, the development of a reliable diagnostic kit is much needed to enable hospital, clinic, and public health workers to confirm that patients seeking care are either infected or free of the virus; and while an effective vaccine is being tested, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should screen existing antiviral medicines to determine if any can protect people from contracting the virus, Song said.

Preventive measures such as increasing health care worker hand washing and isolating infected patients have reduced the spread of many health care — acquired infections.

Speakers include Penn State's Peter Hudson, who talks about disease transmission; Oxford's Oliver Pybus, on how genome analysis exonerated health care workers accused of infecting children with HIV; and N.Y.U.'s Martin Blaser on our disappearing stomach flora.

Nearly 400 health - care workers were infected in Hong Kong, but my hospital, one of the two big teaching hospitals in the city, had only two infections — by far the lowest number of any staff.

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

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.

Contact from pet owners or health care workers who have been handling flu - infected dogs can spread the disease if they don't take precautions to effectively clean their hands and clothing.

Therefore, an asymptomatic health care worker returning from treating patients with Ebola, even if he or she were infected, would not be contagious.