According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), antibiotic resistance is possibly the most important infectious disease threat people face. While antibiotics are… Read more
Tag: infectious disease
UPMC’s Infectious Disease Unit Debuts Following Ebola Drill
Though Ebola has been out of the headlines, UPMC remains vigilant against it and other infectious disease threats. The health system’s efforts received an added… Read more
First Ebola Case Diagnosed in U.S. Not Cause for Panic, Expert Says
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a Texas hospital have confirmed the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. But infectious disease… Read more
City of Pittsburgh Appoints Three UPMC experts to its HIV Commission
As a grade school student growing up in the 1980s, Bethany Blackburn could hardly go a day without hearing something about HIV or AIDS in… Read more
Rare Respiratory Virus Showing Up in Multiple States; No Cases Confirmed at UPMC
A strain of respiratory virus that starts with symptoms that mimic the common cold and, in some cases, progresses to a serious respiratory disease, is… Read more