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Let’s take a closer look at the benefits of sterile packaging in healthcare settings. Preventing the Spread or Exacerbation of Diseases Protecting patients from disease is the primary purpose of sterile packaging. ...
Biomedical liquid waste originating from healthcare facilities, laboratories, and research centers often contains infectious materials that, when discharged without proper treatment, can contribute to the spread of communicable diseases through public sewers. These diseases can affect individuals coming into contact with contaminated water ...
Every year, the 24th of March is recognized as World Tuberculosis Day to educate people around the world about the impact of the disease. Tuberculosis is a disease caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, an airborne pathogen that mostly affects the lungs but can also attack other parts of the human body such as the kidneys, brain, and spine. It can affect people ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is on the rise, and traditional technologies are not up to the task of containing this fast-spreading disease. But a fast, robust, and low-cost optical system is enabling point-of-care testing Driven by various social factors, a number of “old” diseases have recently reemerged to significantly threaten world health. ...
The unprecedented speed at which the new coronavirus spread across the globe, disrupting economies and the global healthcare system, revealed the world's unpreparedness for these kinds of challenges. ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports in the World Health Report 2002, that of the 35 million health-care workers world wide, two million experience percutaneous exposure to infectious diseases each year[2]. WHO estimates that 40% of the 16 billion injections annually administered worldwide involve reused, unsterilised syringes and needles. ...
We can thank early scientists who were curious about how diseases spread and whether hygiene could play a part. One such person was, Dr. John Snow, known as the Father of Epidemiology. In 1854 he tested both disease-stricken and disease-free households in Soho, London, UK to track a deadly cholera outbreak. ...
Since the initial outbreak, the disease has spread to nearly every country on the planet. In the pandemic, the world was in upheaval. ...
Thus, hospitals have taken a wide range of strategic infection protocol steps to curb the spread of the disease, including HVAC systems with germicidal UVC light systems and rooms with negative air pressure for isolation of patients. ...
The swift spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) across the globe has resulted in unexpected and at times, under planned for, impacts. ...
Measles and chickenpox are examples of diseases that spread through airborne transmission. Surface contamination is a form of indirect transmission. ...
The study focused on several Northern California coastal counties and surveyed around 3,000 Western blacklegged ticks, the ticks responsible for spreading Lyme disease in California, the Pacific Northwest, and parts of the American Southwest. ...
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As vaccine rollouts take place in many countries around the world, it feels like the globe will soon be able to take a collective sigh of relief that this pandemic could nearly be over. However, the reality may not be so simple. Leading scientists including the chair of the WHO’s strategic and technical advisory group for infectious hazards expect that SARS-CoV-2 will become endemic, ...
The years 2020-21 are some of the most challenging years experienced by humankind. While the people of Earth recover from the hard blow of COVID-19, they also witnessed several large-scale wildfires. As a result, we observed both the positive and negative impacts on the ambient air quality. The wildfire occurrences severely deteriorated the air quality. In contrast, country-wide complete and ...
Modern intensive housing technics may cause high density and increase the infection rate. So, in order to prevent the spread of diseases and keep high productivity we provide you with an optimal solution for your cattle. ...
They may have a lot of comorbidities—such as diabetes, chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease—and they’re complex cases. ...
The outbreak lasted approximately six months as the disease spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia before it was stopped in July 2003. ...
There is no question that nonwoven gowns and drapes greatly reduce chances of acquiring the many types of infections initiated made worse during a hospital stay. They also help reduce spread of disease in general. ...
The term “herd immunity” has been commonly used since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to describe a phenomenon in which a large portion of a community (the herd) becomes immune to a disease, making the spread of disease from person to person unlikely. Herd immunity can be reached when a sufficient number of people in the ...
A World Economic Forum report released Oct. 8 found the spread of infectious disease is a major concern for executives in the United States and businesses globally, jumping 28 spots from last year to the second most recurring risk and appearing in the top 10 in all regions except South Asia. ...