Hong Kong hospital activates infectious disease procedures
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The Caritas Medical Centre situated in Shamshuipo, Hong Kong has activated infectious disease procedures following the admission of four more children with respiratory illness symptoms.
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Health officials have declared a ``green&#39;&#39; code warning over the outbreak of a mysterious infection at the Caritas Medical Centre in Kowloon that has hit 28 children.
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Preventing the spread of disease in a hospital may be as simple as opening a window, an international team of researchers reported on Monday.
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SAN ANTONIO - Government health officials are urging stronger infection control procedures in military hospitals following a number of infections among troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The nationâs largest public health system will provide infection and death rates at the 11 New York hospitals it administers.
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A mystery illness which has affected 32 people at Caritas Medical Centre, Hong Kong, has been identified as being cause by a parainfluenza virus.
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The traditional doctor's white coat is to be changed as part of government plans to tackle hospital infections.
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Scientists say they have found how the body controls the machinery it uses to fight infections.
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HONG KONG - Hong Kong legislators on Wednesday criticized a Hong Kong hospital for failing to immediately report an outbreak of a mysterious illness in its pediatric ward earlier this month.
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HUNDREDS of patients are being warned they could have contracted hepatitis or HIV after undergoing a hospital procedure. The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust said there was a &quot;very low&quot; risk of
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The AIDS Prevention and Treatment Institute of the Guangdong Provincial Centre for Disease Control started offering the tests yesterday.
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Laboratories in China that wish to experiment on risky pathogenic microbes will now need official approval, say officials. Last March two lab workers caught the SARS virus at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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A controversial health centre where NHS patients will be treated by a private company is officially opened.
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A mystery respiratory illness that is plaguing a local hospital is likely to be the result of a viral, and not bacterial, infection.
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HIV carriers in China may have a chance to become civil servants under a new health standard for recruitment. The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Health are now seeking
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HONG KONG Officials in Thailand announced Monday that a 32-year-old woman had been hospitalized with the country&#39;s second human case of avian influenza since the disease began a resurgence in July and said that two family members of the sick person had
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The intensive care unit of a sick children's hospital is closed to new admissions after a bacterium is found.