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How Infections Spread in the Workplace - Sites, Causes, Prevention Strategies

Infection control in the workplace begins by assuming that everyone is potentially infectious and the environment is dirty and highly infectious. Is this too tough? No, because the workplace is a major source infection over which you have very little control.

1 comment    food infection sick
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The Ugly Truth about Public Swimming Pools and Recreational Water Illnesses

While reading this morning's newspaper, this headline caught my eye: "Phoenix closes all city pools." The article explained that an intestinal parasite called Cryptosporidium was discovered at one location. There is one confirmed case in addition to...

20 comments    health water recreation
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Staphylococcus Bacteria Lives in Humans Body But Does Not Harm Everyone More on MRSA | Staph

New Research on Staphyloccucus Brings Us Closer To Scientific Answers To Pressing Questions

22 comments    health science medicine
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Food Safety: How to Avoid Getting Sick

Recently E.Coli, Salmonella, and other pathogens have been splattered across our newspapers, and evening news headlines. It seems like every time you turn around someone else is getting sick from food....

2 comments    health food fruit
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Lung Cleansing - Detoxify your Body For Better Health

Lung cleansing can be of great benefit for people who may work in locations where they breathe in a lot of polluted air and is essential for long term smokers who have accumulated a lung full of tar in their...

0 comments    health immune system lung cancer
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Proper Internal Cooking Temperatures Guide- Avoid Food Related Illnesses

Photo courtesy- Pam Roth Over 600 people became sick and four children died after eating at Jack in the Box restaurants in 1993. Undercooked hamburgers contaminated with E. coli bacteria was the cause. E. coli is a bacterium that can cause diarrhea,...

5 comments    health children food
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Plant Based Vaccines

The story of vaccination begins in 1796, when Edward Jenner found out vaccine for smallpox. The milestone discovery leads to the prevention of number of dreadful diseases. Now is era of recombinant vaccine. The problems associated with recombinant vaccine production are high production cost and spoilage during storage and transport. Therefore plant based vaccines are another choice.

5 comments    virus produce banana
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Reduce Hospital Employee Injuries

Hospital medical workers face varied and numerous health and injury risks while at work, including strains and sprains from lifting, chemical hazards, radiation, blood borne pathogens and infectious diseases,...

1 comment    safety injuries exposed attacks
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Composting Toilets: A Choice Worth Making

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS  Not just a bucket of poo! When you first think about composting toilets, you may think of the outhouses of yesteryear, and think, "That's not for me"!  But in todays world the...

3 comments    water environment toilet
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Diseases Caused by Microorganisms

Food and water can be contaminated by microorganisms and when consumed can lead to such disease as cholera and typhoid. Microorganisms can be transmitted by droplets released into the air when an infected...

0 comments    health medicine medical
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