Serum samples were obtained from healthcare workers 5 weeks after exposure to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A sensitive dot blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, complemented by a specific neutralization test, shows that only persons in whom probable SARS was diagnosed had specific antibodies and suggests that subclinical SARS is not an important feature of the dise...

To the Editor: The report on “Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination in Nursing Homes”1 is very interesting. Campbell et al1 reported that “Given that [nursing homes] generally have low employee influenza vaccination rates, it may be necessary to target lowperforming facilities to achieve substantial improvements.” In fact, the problem of prevention for influenza among paramedical personnel an...

of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention; William L. Atkinson, MD, MPH, medical epidemiologist, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Linda A. Moyer, RN, consultant to the Immunization Action Coalition, for reviewing and updating the following questions and answers. Healthcare workers...

Ebola disease has been diagnosed in a health worker in Texas, state health officials said Sunday 12 October. The worker, who press reports say is a nurse, took care of a Liberian man who fell ill shortly after arriving in the United States and later died of Ebola disease. The worker is the second person to contract the disease outside Africa. The first, Teresa Romero, is a Spanish nurse who car...

BACKGROUND Although training and education have long been accepted as integral to disaster preparedness, many currently taught practices are neither evidence-based nor standardized. The need for effective evidence-based disaster training of healthcare staff at all levels, including the development of standards and guidelines for training in the multi-disciplinary health response to major events...