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Over twelve minute long video report by Prof. Kentaro Iwata of the Division of Infectious Disease Therapeutics, Kobe University who visited Diamond Princess cruise ship. Diamond Princess is COVID-19 mill. How I got in the ship and was removed... https://youtu.be/vtHYZkLuKcI @YouTube さんから Diamond Princess has completely inadequate infection control, and there is no professional ID person in charge. Diamond Princess has completely inadequate infection control, and there is no professional ID person in charge. Passengers, crews, health care professionals... Youtube link

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is replacing its new high-tech, electric-eye faucets with the old-fashioned kind after discovering that the new hands-free designs actually allowed more contamination from Legionella and other bacteria than the old style. Although the high-tech faucets cut daily water consumption by well over half, Johns Hopkins researchers identified Legionella growing in 50 percent of cultured water samples from 20 electronic-eye faucets in or near patient rooms on three different inpatient units, but in only 15 percent of water cultures from. . . . ."

LOS ANGELES — The city of Las Vegas has shut down a clinic where up to 40,000 people may have been exposed to hepatitis C and the HIV virus through the reuse of syringes and vials, officials said on Sunday. The clinic at the heart of the scandal, the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, "was served with an emergency suspension of its business license," city authorities said in a statement. Officials are asking about 40,000 people to be tested for hepatitis B and C and HIV because of unsafe medical practices at the clinic. Health authorities launched an investigation into...

Okay, my friends. For the last week or so, the media have gotten Americans all worked up into a froth about this "deadly new bacteria" called MRSA. My ER is now inundated with frantic phone calls from people who have no idea what they are looking at, or what the disease really is. One charming woman (who clearly smoked wayyyyyyyy too much) called amid the throes of a panic attack because she found a pimple and was convinced beyond all attempts to reason with her that she was "gonna die of Melissa." "Ah, you mean MRSA." I corrected the hyperventilating...

First quarter net revenues increase 15 percent over prior year quarter to approximately $34 million. First quarter income from operations grows 44 percent over prior year quarter. ALPHARETTA, Ga., May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microtek Medical Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTMD - News), a leading manufacturer and supplier of innovative product solutions for patient care, occupational safety and management of infectious and hazardous waste for the healthcare industry, today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2005. Highlights from the first quarter of 2005 include: Net revenues increased 15 percent over the first quarter of 2004 to $33.7 million; *...

COLUMBUS, Miss., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microtek Medical Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTMD - News), a leading manufacturer and marketer of infection control products, fluid control products and safety products to healthcare professionals, announced today the appointment of Barbara J. Osborne, 43, to fill its newly created position of Executive Vice President - Sales and Marketing, effective August 11, 2004. Ms. Osborne joins Microtek's executive management team after having spent more than 13 years in various executive management, sales and marketing roles at Tyco Healthcare/Kendall-LTP ("Tyco/Kendall"), a division of Tyco Healthcare and manufacturer of disposable medical products for surgery, cardiology, obstetrics...

Doctors and nurses aren't surprised anymore when they walk into isolation rooms at Inova Fairfax Hospital and sick patients ask them whether their hands are clean. Years ago, such patients might be regarded as troublemakers, but now Inova's chief infection fighter, hospital epidemiologist Allan J. Morrison Jr., uses brochures to encourage patients to protect themselves by challenging caregivers' hand hygiene. "Anything that gets you talking about hand washing, anytime or anywhere, is music to the ears of an infectious disease professional," Morrison said. Medical experts at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention enthusiastically agree with Morrison, and they...

The number of deaths caused by hospital superbugs has tripled in the past decade with London worst hit, new figures show today. The first major study of its kind into the most common infection, MRSA, comes two months after the Evening Standard alerted Londoners to the growing danger of superbugs, which thrive on dirty wards and poor staff hygiene. A Standard investigation revealed that more than 100 patients a month in the capital are being struck down by the drug-resistant MRSA infection which, while not always fatal, can kill in hours. Now the situation is being officially recognised with a...