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IPAC-BC Education Day: Save the Date!
IPAC-BC will be hosting an Infection Prevention and Control Education Day on Friday November 4, 2016. Be sure to mark it in your calendar! The event will be open to everyone (not just IPAC members). Details on the program and registration fees will be announced later this year. The event will be held in the Century-Plaza Hotel at 1015 Burrard Street, Vancouver. If you will be traveling from other parts...
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IPAC-BC will be hosting an Infection Prevention and Control Education Day on Friday November 4, 2016. Be sure to mark it in your calendar! The event will be open to everyone (not just IPAC members). Details on the program and registration fees will be announced later this year. The event will be held in the Century-Plaza Hotel at 1015 Burrard Street, Vancouver. If you will be traveling from other parts...
Emerging global HAI-AMR issue: Candida auris
PHAC communication PHAC has recently learned of a public health alert from US CDC in relation to the global emergence of invasive infections caused by the multidrug-resistant yeast organism, Candida auris. While C. auris is not common, it can cause invasive infections associated with high mortality and has also been known to cause outbreaks in healthcare facilities. Information available to date indicates that cases of C. auris have occurred in at...
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PHAC communication PHAC has recently learned of a public health alert from US CDC in relation to the global emergence of invasive infections caused by the multidrug-resistant yeast organism, Candida auris. While C. auris is not common, it can cause invasive infections associated with high mortality and has also been known to cause outbreaks in healthcare facilities. Information available to date indicates that cases of C. auris have occurred in at...
Ebola information from PHSA
If you work for another health authority, please refer to their procedures. It has been six months since the outbreak of Ebola was declared in Western Africa. To date, there have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in Canada, and the risk to the Canadian general public is very low. Health care workers in Canada, however, could be required to care for a patient with Ebola if a traveller or...
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If you work for another health authority, please refer to their procedures. It has been six months since the outbreak of Ebola was declared in Western Africa. To date, there have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in Canada, and the risk to the Canadian general public is very low. Health care workers in Canada, however, could be required to care for a patient with Ebola if a traveller or...