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2016/10/17

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Listeriosis Outbreak

Source: Vancouver Coastal Health : Public safety advisory for customers of Foody World Vancouver Coastal Health is warn ing customers not to consume any produce or ready-to-eat foods made in-house at Foody World, at 3000 Sexsmith Road in Richmond, due to possible listeria contamination. So far at least 6 people have been hospitalized due to the illness. Potentially contaminated items include all ready-to-eat meat...

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Source: Vancouver Coastal Health : Public safety advisory for customers of Foody World Vancouver Coastal Health is warn ing customers not to consume any produce or ready-to-eat foods made in-house at Foody World, at 3000 Sexsmith Road in Richmond, due to possible listeria contamination. So far at least 6 people have been hospitalized due to the illness. Potentially contaminated items include all ready-to-eat meat...

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2023/04/28

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2022/05/06

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2022-05-05 Recording_World Hand Hygiene Day

“World Hand Hygiene Day 2022” by Prof Didier Pittet and Prof Benedetta Allegranzi....

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2014/10/06

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BCCDC, Ebola Virus, EV-D68, H7N9, MERS-CoV

Emerging Respiratory Viruses

[…] Ebola outbreak affecting several countries of West Africa, we would also like to remind and update you about several emerging respiratory viruses (ERV) with ongoing global monitoring since our last bulletin of June 17, 2014, including: 1. MERS-CoV. Activity has declined substantially relative to the dramatic surge that occurred in April 2014. However, sporadic cases continue to be reported from affected regions in the...

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[…] Ebola outbreak affecting several countries of West Africa, we would also like to remind and update you about several emerging respiratory viruses (ERV) with ongoing global monitoring since our last bulletin of June 17, 2014, including: 1. MERS-CoV. Activity has declined substantially relative to the dramatic surge that occurred in April 2014. However, sporadic cases continue to be reported from affected regions in the...

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2023/04/03

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PICNet News

PICNet’s Team Announcements

[…] with you.   Returns We welcome back Jenn Diep, Project Manager, and Tara Donovan, Network Director, who have both returned from maternity leave.   Welcomes Mahta Khoshnam Tehrani We are thrilled to share the wonderful news that Mahta Khoshnam Tehrani has joined PICNet as our second temporary full-time Lead, Research and Knowledge Translation alongside Mahmood Rahman. Mahta holds a BSc, MsC and PhD in Electrical...

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[…] with you.   Returns We welcome back Jenn Diep, Project Manager, and Tara Donovan, Network Director, who have both returned from maternity leave.   Welcomes Mahta Khoshnam Tehrani We are thrilled to share the wonderful news that Mahta Khoshnam Tehrani has joined PICNet as our second temporary full-time Lead, Research and Knowledge Translation alongside Mahmood Rahman. Mahta holds a BSc, MsC and PhD in Electrical...

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2015/09/18

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MERS-CoV

Emerging Respiratory Virus Update

[…] August 23 concluded that most nosocomial cases involved patient-to-patient infection, facilitated by overcrowding in the emergency room and breaches in compliance with infection control measures among patients, visitors and healthcare workers. For more information: http://www.emro.who.int/surveillance-forecasting-response/surveillance- news/who-mission-on-middle-east-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-merscov-in-saudi-arabia.html. This past week, the WHO confirmed a third nosocomial outbreak in Saudi Arabia, this time in the holy city of...

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[…] August 23 concluded that most nosocomial cases involved patient-to-patient infection, facilitated by overcrowding in the emergency room and breaches in compliance with infection control measures among patients, visitors and healthcare workers. For more information: http://www.emro.who.int/surveillance-forecasting-response/surveillance- news/who-mission-on-middle-east-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-merscov-in-saudi-arabia.html. This past week, the WHO confirmed a third nosocomial outbreak in Saudi Arabia, this time in the holy city of...

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2016/03/18

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University of Saskatchewan researchers develop new way of combating antibiotic resistance

[…] be done, for example, to tailor methods to better deliver RecA inhibitors. The University of Saskatchewan has applied for a patent for the RecA inhibitor technology and is currently seeking partners to license and develop it. The work is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Read the full news article in Infection Control Today...

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[…] be done, for example, to tailor methods to better deliver RecA inhibitors. The University of Saskatchewan has applied for a patent for the RecA inhibitor technology and is currently seeking partners to license and develop it. The work is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Read the full news article in Infection Control Today...

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2017/08/30

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Researchers use antibiotics combo to kill first strain of highly resistant E. coli

Excerpted from Infection Control Today: The recent discovery of E. coli carrying mcr-1 and ndm-5 — genes that make the bacterium immune to last-resort antibiotics — has left clinicians without an effective means of treatment for this bacterium. But in a new study, University at Buffalo researchers have assembled a team of three antibiotics that, together, are capable of eradicating the deadly bacterium. <mark...

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Excerpted from Infection Control Today: The recent discovery of E. coli carrying mcr-1 and ndm-5 — genes that make the bacterium immune to last-resort antibiotics — has left clinicians without an effective means of treatment for this bacterium. But in a new study, University at Buffalo researchers have assembled a team of three antibiotics that, together, are capable of eradicating the deadly bacterium. <mark...

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2014/09/02

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PICNet Newsletter Jan2013

PICNet PROVINCIAL INFECTION CONTROL NETWORK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA A program of the Provincial Health Services Authority PICNet January Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together! Issue: #1 January 2013 ARO Guidelines Revision - your input is requested The ARO Guidelines Working Group has been revising the 2005 Antiobiotic Resistant Organisms (ARO) Provincial Guidelines to reflect their review of the latest evidence on common AROs and...

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2014/12/02

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Chemotherapy – Health, Safety, and Waste Management Issues SLIDES

[…] less pain and discomfort and spent up to 80 per cent less time in the hospital chair, as a SC injection around five minutes per visit, compared with 30-90 minutes for IV treatment. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045%2813%2970383-8/abstract http://www.bsms.ac.uk/about/ news/herceptin-by-injection-is-quicker-and-preferred-say-breast-cance/ 43 44 Waste streams…….. 45 46 Pharmaceutical Waste and Disposal Aerosols (inhalers) Hazardous Drugs, Bulk Chemo, & empty vials & IV bags that contained Warfarin, Arsenic...

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2017/03/10

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Evaluating IPC Education

[…] behind future activities There is a hugely motivational aspect to this Training task-orientated within a specific working environment helps staff to acquire skills to complete a procedure to a set standard Clinical and non-clinical "Good news, It’s Mandatory Training Day" 11 Confession Time I delivered around 1000 in-house training sessions in my NHS Career I have no idea if they were effective People...

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2022/04/26

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2022-04-28 Slides_Infection Prevention Crystal Ball Initiative

[…] analysis" Timing the future "Micro-, meso-, and macro-history" Deepening the future "Causal layers analysis" (CLA) Creating alternatives "Scenario planning" Transforming the future "Visioning", "Backcasting" 18 Commonly used techniques 1. Mapping the Future 19 20 https:// news.yale.edu/2015/06/11/hidden-secrets-yale-s-1491-world-map-revealed-multispectral-imaging Henricus Martellus, Florence, Italy, late 15th century Mapping | Anticipation | Timing | Deepening | Alternatives | Transforming 21 What is holding us back or getting...

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2023/08/16

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2023-08-16 Slides_Understanding the Immunity Debt

[…] returned to near-normal 2023FebDORSCON Green•Mask-wearing only mandatory in healthc. facilities w/ patient contact•All other restrictions are lifted Pandemic Response Measures, SingaporeDORSCON, Disease Outbreak Response System Condition. Sources: Ministry of Health, Singapore, Wikipedia, Straits Times, Channel News Asia (CNA) 6Disappearance and reappearance of respiratory viruses during COVID-19 response measures•Routine Respiratory Pathogens (RP) multiplex PCR testing (BioFire) •Around Dec 2019/Jan 2020 –Large proportion of positives –Mainly Flu A/B...

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2023/09/20

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Srigley 2023_Barriers to IPC in LTC in BC

[…] to host and collect the survey responses from a conve - nience sample of HCWs who provided informed con - sent. Recruitment of participants occurred from August 11, 2021, to September 24, 2021 via staff newsletters and communications platforms of all health authorities in BC, as well as social media and public websites of health authorities and affiliated organizations. To incentivize participation, six...

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2015/12/09

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CPO

OXA-48 strain of CPO in the news

Several stories have been circulat ing in the U.S. press around a strain of CPO that the media has dubbed “The Phantom Menace”. The stories refer to this report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on December 4, 2015. The main summary points of the report are: The plasmid containing OXA-48-like genes has high transfer efficiency, and...

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Several stories have been circulat ing in the U.S. press around a strain of CPO that the media has dubbed “The Phantom Menace”. The stories refer to this report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on December 4, 2015. The main summary points of the report are: The plasmid containing OXA-48-like genes has high transfer efficiency, and...

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2016/10/13

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Infection Control Week 2016

[…] own HA’s intranet) Thanks to all of you — in every area of health care — for all that you do to help prevent infections! Interior Health has an article in @IH Magazine, and an InTheLoop news story with profiles of the IPAC staff. Northern Health has an online poster featuring the whole IPAC team; click on the staff photos to...

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[…] own HA’s intranet) Thanks to all of you — in every area of health care — for all that you do to help prevent infections! Interior Health has an article in @IH Magazine, and an InTheLoop news story with profiles of the IPAC staff. Northern Health has an online poster featuring the whole IPAC team; click on the staff photos to...

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2016/11/23

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Influenza

Development of universal flu shot: two articles

Canadian researchers developing one-time flu vaccine from CTV News.ca: Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. are developing a flu vaccine that would be administered only once, eliminating the need for the annual shot. Dr. Matthew Miller, an assistant professor of biochemistry at McMaster, is part of the team of researchers developing the universal vaccine. The basis of its success, he said, is...

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Canadian researchers developing one-time flu vaccine from CTV News.ca: Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. are developing a flu vaccine that would be administered only once, eliminating the need for the annual shot. Dr. Matthew Miller, an assistant professor of biochemistry at McMaster, is part of the team of researchers developing the universal vaccine. The basis of its success, he said, is...

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2024/06/20

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Announcement – Senior Practice Leader_PICNet_2024-05-17

[…] 7 2024 Sent on behalf of : Tara Donovan, Network Director, PICNet PHSA Dr. Titus Wong , Provincial Medical Director, PICNet PHSA Announcement – Senior Practice Leader: Noorsallah Esmail We are elated to share the news that Noorsallah Esmail has accepted the role of Senior Practice Leader with the Provincial Infection Control Network of BC (PICNet). Noorsallah transitioned to her new role May 10...

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2014/09/02

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PICNet Newsletter Mar2014

[…] . Please encourage your staff and colleagues to enter! The contest is open to all healthcare workers in BC. So go get sudsy and snap- happy! Spread the Word We have posters, graphics, and sample newsletter articles and tweets that you can download and share to help promote the contest. Or simp ly forward this email! There are also lots of hand...

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2014/09/03

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PHAC_HandHygiene_Practices_in_Healthcare_Settings

[…] n-propanol (175) , are the most effective antimicrobial agents, followed by chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) and povidone- iodine preparations. All are significantly more effective than unmedicated soap (11;18) . The hand hygiene agents most commonly employed today are alcohols and detergent preparations containing CHG (Table 2). Lodophors, triclosan, chloroxylenol, and quaternary ammonia products are not commonly used (11) , but may have a role in...

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