Fungal Infection

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NEWS SCAN: FSIS's foreign meat inspections, more fungal infections, severe Staph pneumonia, antibacterial bath benefits

Jan 28, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Coronavirus controversy, more fungal infections, DTaP reactions in kids

Jan 14, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Antiviral-resistant flu, DARPA flu study grant, test for meningitis-causing fungus, yellow fever in Sudan

Jan 11, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Antibiotics in animals, MRSA infection risk, more fungal meningitis cases

Jan 7, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: More fungal infections, BSE and beef imports, H5N1 vaccine production license, cholera efforts in Haiti

Dec 31, 2012

 

Attack rate in fungal meningitis outbreak estimated at 4.4%

(CIDRAP News) – Researchers estimate from preliminary data that 4.4% of patients who were exposed to contaminated steroid drugs from a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy contracted fungal meningitis or other fungal infections, according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: More fungal infections, thimerosal in vaccines, malaria efforts tapering

Dec 17, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: E coli salad outbreak ends, USDA's 'test and hold' rule, more meningitis cases, infectious-disease advances

Dec 11, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Ag antibiotics lawsuit, approving new antibiotics, compounding pharmacy legislation, mumps on campus

Dec 6, 2012

 

CDC sounds warning on more tainted NECC drugs

(CIDRAP News) – Further testing on three more products from New England Compounding Center (NECC) has turned up extensive contamination in three more products, and federal officials are asking healthcare workers to be alert for more infections, though they stopped short of calling the situation an outbreak.

Lisa Schnirring
 

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