For people living in care homes, infections can be serious, and in some cases, life-threatening. They can also make existing medical conditions worse. Regular contact with staff, other residents, ...

but the description from a staff worker at the Olympic Village in Tokyo. The part-time worker in her 50s says she is in constant fear of a COVID-19 cluster because of inadequate infection control ...

Viral illnesses have been on the rise this winter across the U.S., with norovirus – or stomach bug – infections nearly doubling from a year ago. Nursing ...

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and minimizing the risk of staff infection. "In some cases, people with dementia don't understand infection control and wander out of the isolation zone," notes Ishii. Furthermore, he says ...