Clinicians' Biosecurity News Archive: 2019

• 09-23-2019: Explaining the Rising Tide of Scarlet Fever in the UK with Molecular Epidemiology Scarlet fever is often thought of as an infectious disease from another century, but the United Kingdom has been experiencing a record number of cases since 2014.
• 09-12-2019: Organ Transplantation-related Tularemia A new report from the CDC, published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, details 3 tularemia cases who acquired infection via organ transplantation.
• 09-09-2019: Respiratory Protection in the Outpatient Setting: The ResPECT Trial A new study attempts to answer the question of whether N95 masks offer greater protection than medical masks to healthcare workers in an outpatient setting.
• 07-24-2019: Respecting RSV in Adults Influenza has an outsized influence, but RSV is a neglected cause of severe disease in adults that rivals influenza.
• 05-30-2019: Unknown Infectious Syndromes: Fertile Ground for Viral Discovery Pandemic preparedness not only includes preparing for known, well-characterized pandemic risks but also anticipating new threats.
• 05-14-2019: Understanding the Human-to-Human Transmissibility of Nipah A new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, aims to identify risk factors for human-to-human transmission of Nipah virus in Bangladesh.
• 05-09-2019: Sudden Fulminant Infection-caused Deaths: A Biological Dark Matter Universe Half of fulminant deaths from infection escape diagnosis
• 04-22-2019: Home Respiratory Infection Testing: An Important Tool to Develop The broader use of home testing could be important for outbreak management, antibiotic stewardship, situational awareness, and pandemic response.
• 04-09-2019: The Value of a Rapid Anthrax Triage Tool with Minimal Need for Diagnostic Testing A new triage tool to identify those who have signs and symptoms consistent with anthrax is described in an article.
• 01-10-2019: Moderate-Sized Cities and the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic It is widely believed that major cities—especially megacities—play an outsized role in the transmission of infectious diseases.