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Are schools making kids sick?
By David S. Martin, CNN (link to original article here) STORY HIGHLIGHTS Woman says school air sickened her son for 53 days last school year New York study finds correlation between building maintenance and illness Studies estimate one-third of U.S. schools have mold, dust and other indoor air problems Connecticut school so plagued with mold officials ... More
Dirty Restaurant Playgrounds
PHOENIX -- An Arizona State University professor's campaign against dirty restaurant playgrounds got her banned from several McDonald's in the Valley. Dr. Erin Carr-Jordan, a mother of four, started recording and posting videos of trashy playgrounds, and quickly built an international following. Her lab tests, which revealed dangerous bacteria on the ... More
Acinetobacter Baumannii Drug Resistant Bacteria Found in Almost Half of Hospital Rooms: Study
Reposted from The Huffington Post (link to origial article) A hospital is a place of healing, but a new small study shows that drug-resistant bacteria may be lurking in some hospital rooms. Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine found Acinetobacter baumannii, a drug-resistant bacteria known as MDR-AB, in 48 percent of ... More
Bioterrorism Report Card: U.S. unprepared
By Jim Barnett and Mike Ahlers October 12, 2011 -- Updated 2051 GMT (0451 HKT) (reproduced from CNN - link to original article) Washington (CNN) -- Ten years after an anthrax attack killed five people and awakened the nation to the dangers of bioterrorism, the United States remains largely unprepared for a large-scale ... More
The Real Threat of ‘Contagion’
Article by New York Times (link to original article here) Published: September 11, 2011 By W. IAN LIPKIN Reproduced below for your reading pleasure I ADMIT I was wary when I was approached, late in 2008, about working on a movie with the director Steven Soderbergh about a flulike pandemic. It ... More
World health officials scramble to stem deadly E. coli outbreak
By the CNN Wire Staff June 2, 2011 (CNN) -- Infectious disease detectives worldwide rushed Thursday to find the cause of an outbreak of a rare strain of E. coli that has spread to 10 countries and is blamed for at least 16 deaths and hundreds of illnesses. Nine patients in Germany had ... More
‘GMA’ Germ Test Shows Some Public Seats Full of Bacteria
By ELISABETH LEAMY and VANESSA WEBER 27 May 2011 You might want to sit down for this -- or maybe not. This is a story about germs on public seats, and just how common and hazardous they might be. When "Good Morning America" learned that Bay Area Rapid Transit commuter train seats in San ... More
Alarming Uptick of Deadly Superbugs in Hospitals
(CBS) America's hospitals are places of healing and hope. But they're also home to a growing threat. You may have heard of MSRA - a dangerous infection that can often be treated with antibiotics. Now there's a new class of superbugs - infections striking patients with little or no effective ... More
Study: E.coli contamination found on half of shopping carts
On your next trip to the grocery store, be aware, much more than groceries may be riding in your shopping cart. More bacteria exists in these carts than in public bathrooms or on a city bus, and children may be the most at risk. It's probably overlooked by many, but ... More
MRSA Infections Occur More In Summer And Fall
This 2005 colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicted numerous clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, occurs more frequently in the summer and fall, according to new research. Dr. Leonard Mermel, lead author and medical director of the department of epidemiology and infection control at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, and ... More