The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that this season’s flu vaccine was only 12% effective for adults aged 18 to 49 and 14% effective for those 50 and older.
Few health emergencies have the ability to ignite such widespread panic as a potential epidemic. In the previous decade, hospitals have dealt with public health scares surrounding SARS, bird flu, and H1N1, but in 2014, Ebola has moved front and center in the U.S., a country that previously...
A former University of Wisconsin Hospital nurse accused of stealing morphine could also face a reckless homicide charge for allegedly fatally infecting a patient with a pathogen.
