CDC wants more, faster testing for bird flu as outbreak grows
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients ...
How deadly is bird flu in humans? What we know as US confirms first death
The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate amid ongoing outbreak.
Bird flu outbreak has reached Maryland. How concerned should we be?
The widening U.S. bird flu outbreak has made its way to Maryland, which has counted two cases on commercial poultry farms — one in Caroline County and another in Queen Anne’s County — since the start ...
The Maroon21h
Public health workers demand better for Louisiana residents
The Louisiana Department of Health has implemented a new policy that bans promoting vaccines even though Louisiana is ranked #32.
Statewide effort hopes to bring in new healthcare workers
As thousands of jobs are still waiting to be filled, there’s a serious effort from the state of Louisiana to get more people ...
The Advocate5h
Letters: Vaccine policy has real-life consequences
Gov. Jeff Landry and Louisiana Surgeon General Dr. Ralph Abraham must be beside themselves with joy having accomplished the ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine18h
Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control
The mission of the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control at the Johns Hopkins Hospital is to support the institution's tripartite mission of research, teaching, and patient care; ...