The Costs of Preventing vs Responding to Outbreaks, and More ID in the News
IDSA Board Member, Jeffrey Duchin, MD, FIDSA spoke with CNBC and Medscape on the mumps outbreaks hitting nearly 900 migrants in 57 U.S. detention centers in the past year.
“This mumps outbreak really is just a red flag that shows us that these facilities present a risk for spreading a number of infectious diseases,” Dr. Duchin said. “It’s much easier and more important and less costly to prevent these diseases than to respond to them,” Duchin continued. “The prevention of these diseases is important not only to help protect the health of people being held, but also the staff and surrounding communities.”
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- Forbes: Can Any Doctor Ethically Work In A U.S. Immigration Detention Facility? (Matthew Zahn, MD)
- Infectious Disease News: Advocacy in ID: The ‘critical’ role of physicians (Amanda Jezek)
- Infectious Diseases in Children: Migrants detained at border will not be vaccinated against flu (Matthew Zahn, MD)
- Inside Health Policy: BIO Leads New Group Pushing For Antibiotic Incentives, DISARM Act (Amanda Jezek)
- Inside Health Policy: Price of PrEP Forces Patients, Providers To Consider Coverage Limits (David Hardy, MD)
- MedPage Today: Denying Flu Shots to Immigrants in Custody: 'Stark Violation of Law, Ethics' (Cynthia Sears, MD, FIDSA)
- New York Times: Readers Share Pain and Frustration Over Urinary Tract Infections (Dimitri Drekonja, MD, FIDSA)