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SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, May 7, 1993. "Previous reports have described transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to five persons (patients A, B, C, E, and G) during [...]

2000 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States evaluated healthcare workers' (HCW) risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens at a community teaching hospital. "Because occupational exposure to [...]

According to an abstract presented by the authors to the 2nd National Conference on Human Retroviruses and Related Infections, held January 29 - February 2, 1995, in Washington, DC, "OBJECTIVE: [...]

Highlights of the First National Conference on Human Retroviruses and Related Infections, held in Washington, D.C., December 12-16, 1993, included new tests that may determine the exact amount of HIV [...]

AUTHORS: C. Ciesielski, J. Jones, P. Fleming and J. Ward. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia. According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the [...]

Healthcare workers who are HIV-positive must be made aware of the extreme risks of being in routine contact with tuberculosis (TB) patients, and hospitals have to be made safer for [...]

SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, October 30, 1992. "Public health surveillance for and risk-assessment studies of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection provide a basis for formulating measures to minimize [...]

SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, May 13, 1992. "Investigation of the patients of a Florida dentist with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) concluded that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was transmitted [...]

SOURCE: The Journal of the American Medical Association, December 25, 1991;266(24):3459-3462. The vast majority of healthcare workers with AIDS acquired HIV infection outside of their work environment, national surveillance data [...]

AUTHORS: R. Battan, N.C. Raviglione, H. Cortes, J. Sugar, G. Garner and A. Taranta. Cabrini Medical Center, New York. According to the abstract of the authors' presentation to the 30th [...]

'Tuberculosis Among Health Care Workers In California, 1995-1996.' J.J. Flattery, S. Cussler, L. Soluaga and R. Harrison. Berkeley, California. * According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the [...]

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, "Ninety-one health care workers (HCWs) employed in a public hospital were identified with recent tuberculin [...]

AUTHORS: C. Ciesielski, R. Metler, T. Hammett, P. Fleming and J. Ward. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia. According to an abstract submitted by the authors [...]

DATELINE: United Kingdom A British health worker's infection with HIV from an infected patient is prompting concern about whether terminally ill AIDS patients should receive certain emergency treatments. The medical [...]

U.S. CDC On-the-job accidents may have infected 101 lab technicians, nurses and other healthcare workers in the U.S. with HIV, health officials say (DEPARTMENT Periodical Report, this issue, pages 24-25). [...]

Georgia Forty percent of the nurses and doctors who treated tuberculosis (TB) patients at an Atlanta, Georgia, hospital in the spring of 1992 have tested positive TB. That means they [...]

American Lung Association Healthcare workers are increasingly at risk of catching tuberculosis (TB) from their patients as the rate of drug-resistant strains of the disease rises dramatically. Two studies released [...]

AUTHORS: D.L. Thomas, S.H. Factor, A.V. Carella, M.W. Moss and T.C. Quinn. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland. [...]

New York A massive tuberculosis outbreak has been reported at North Central Bronx Hospital (NCBH), with over 60 healthcare workers testing positive thus far. The outbreak occurred in the 2C [...]

DATELINE: VI International Conference on AIDS A prospective study involving more than 1,300 health-care workers found only one worker who became infected with HIV although 525 workers reported 'adverse exposures' [...]