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Future Virol
Aim:Assess risks related to breaches of poliovirus containmentMethod:Using a dynamic transmission model, we explore the variability among different populations in the vulnerability to poliovirus containment breaches as population immunity to transmission declines after oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) cessation.Results:Although using OPV instead of wild poliovirus (WPV) seed strains for inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) production offers some expected risk reintroduction of live polioviruses from IPV manufacturing facilities, OPV seed strain releases may become a significant threat within 5-10 years of OPV cessation in areas most conducive to fecal-oral poliovirus transmission, regardless of IPV use.Conclusions:Efforts to quantify the risks demonstrate the challenges associated with understanding and managing relatively low-probability and high-consequence containment failure events.U2R GH001913/GH/CGH CDC HHS/United States2021-02-16T00:00:00Z33598044PMC7885305922
Recommendations for prevention of infections in health care personnel
"This guideline updates and replaces the previous edition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 'Guideline for Infection Control in Hospital Personnel,' published in 1983. The revised guideline, designed to provide methods for reducing the transmission of infections from patients to health care personnel and from personnel to patients, also provides an overview of the evidence for recommendations considered prudent by consensus of the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee members. A working draft of this guideline was also reviewed by experts in infection control, occupational health, and infectious diseases; however, all recommendations contained in the guideline may not reflect the opinion of all reviewers. This document focuses on the epidemiology of and preventive strategies for infections known to be transmitted in health care settings and those for which there are adequate scientific data on which to base recommendations for prevention. The prevention strategies addressed in this document include immunizations for vaccine-preventable diseases, isolation precautions to prevent exposures to infectious agents, management of health care personnel exposure to infected persons, including postexposure prophylaxis, and work restrictions for exposed or infected health care personnel. In addition, because latex barriers are frequently used to protect personnel against transmission of infectious agents, this guideline addresses issues related to latex hypersensitivity and provides recommendations to prevent sensitization and reactions among health care personnel." - p. 289-290Published simultaneously in AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control (1998;26:289-354) and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (1998;19:407-63). PDF has pagination of American journal of infection control.Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-354).Part I. Infection control issues for health care personnel : an overview / Elizabeth A. Bolyard, Ofelia C. Tablan, Watter W. Williams, Michele L. Pearson, Craig N. Shapiro, Scott D. Deitchman, The Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee -- Part II. Recommendations for prevention of infections in health care personnel / The Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services1998Partially SupersededHICPACPrevention and ControlInfectious DiseaseOccupational Health9669622678
Public Health Response to Imported Case of Poliomyelitis, Australia, 2007
Inactivated polio vaccine was offered, and the index case-patient and household contacts were quarantined
Studies on the transmission of wesselsbron virus by Aedes (Ochlerotatus) Caballus (Theo.)
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