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...also have to be vigilant about protecting yourself from infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 2 million patients a year acquire infections while in the hospital, many of them carried on the unwashed hands of health-care workers. Although hand washing significantly reduces infection rates, the CDC notes that less than half of hospital personnel do this as they move from patient to patient. To make sure you're not handed an infection, remind all staff members (your doctor as well) to wash their hands before they touch you. "Visitors should also wash their hands...
...CDC recommends that if you have a urinary catheter inserted, you should be sure to ask how soon it can be removed. Although often necessary, catheters account for 40% of hospital-acquired infections. Your odds of developing an infection increase with each day a catheter is in place...
...that officials here have been collecting and analyzing information on these cases for more than a decade. But access to the data?especially for outsiders?has been carefully guarded. The man in charge of generating the statistics is Dr. Lu Lin, director of the Yunnan Center for Disease Control (CDC), who has been monitoring HIV infection among the highest-risk groups in nearly 50 sites around the province since...
...part of that exchange, Lu's CDC team shared with Ho, in the first presentation of its kind to anyone outside the Chinese government, the details of AIDS penetration in Yunnan. Last March Lu informed Ho that in a 2002 survey of high-risk populations, 43% of IV drug users had shared needles with others in the past month, and that among female sex workers, 89% were unaware of their risk of contracting HIV. A majority of sex workers, about 60%, reported inconsistent condom use. Since they have begun collecting data, says Lu, there has been...
...good news, according to Erin Staples of the CDC, is that Lyme disease is almost always readily cured if diagnosed early and treated with a short course of antibiotics (doxycycline, amoxicillin and Ceftin are most often recommended). Infection doesn't usually occur until the tick has been attached to your body for 36 hours. So if you are going into the woods this summer, wear shoes, socks and light-colored clothing; spray your clothes and skin with an insect repellent that contains DEET; stay on cleared, well-traveled trails; avoid moist, shady areas covered with leaf litter or low-lying...