Bloodborne safety: universal precautions, standard precautions, and needlestick prevention
Bloodborne infections -- Transmission of bloodborne -- Infection -- Exposure control -- Using personal protective equipment -- Work practice controls
Subject: Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional--prevention & control
Emerging diseases
An outbreak of mad cow disease shut down Britain's cattle industry, resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals and costing the
Subject: Chronic wasting disease
Transcript: REPRESENTATIVES. WE'LL LEARN ABOUT DISEASES THAT EVOLVE, GROW AND REEMERGE INTO SOCIETY, AND WE'LL LEARN HOW TO HANDLE THEM. Friedman: TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM
The Modern Plague: Rumblings, New Disease Rumored
The year was 1981. Reports of a strange disease that was attacking seemingly healthy young men began to spread through the medical community. The
Subject: modes of transmission
Transcript: [narrator:] the year was 1981. reports of a strange disease that was attacking seemingly healthy young men began to spread through the medical
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
CJD is a rare, incurable brain disease that is always fatal. Transmission of CJD can be to people receiving human growth hormone, corneal grafts
Risky Business: STDs: Epidemic Proportions
Many sexually transmitted diseases have taken a backseat to headlines about HIV, but they still take their toll. The rate of infection is increasing
Subject: sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
Transcript: [narrator:] other sexually transmitted diseases may have taken a backseat to headlines about hiv, but they still take their toll. [bennett:] we
Emerging diseases: prions and viruses
In an increasingly global society, disease outbreaks are on the rise - and so is the need for epidemiology expertise. This program introduces
Subject: Emerging infectious diseases
Transcript: infected from that liquid. (man) There've been no reports of human-to-human transmission of the disease to date. People at high risk include those who work
Germ Warfare: Vaccines and Childhood Diseases
The vaccine-preventable diseases of childhood are rarely seen in the industrialized nations of the world because of the immunization programs that
Subject: vaccine-preventable diseases
Transcript: humans. And so, if you could break the chain of transmission In humans-- and it wasn't a latent infection in humans, And so it caused an acute disease, And
Infectious diseases: more mobility, greater danger
Illustrating connections between globalization and the spread of disease, this program uses data-mapping to assess the potential impact of deadly
Subject: Communicable diseases
Transcript: INFLUENZA, OR BIRD FLU, WAS RAMPANT IN ASIA EARLY IN 2004. BUT THE DISEASE IS NOT NEW TO THE WORLD. IN 2003, IT RAVAGED THE NETHERLANDS. 30 MILLION
AIDS: A Global Crisis
This program offers an excellent worldview of AIDS, providing background on the disease’s history, its transmission and symptoms, innovative
Subject: AIDS (Disease)
Transcript: transmission and symptoms to awareness, and how British scientists are working with scientists from around the world to find an effective long-term treatment
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) attack the central nervous system. This results in the loss of motor skills and the ability to think