What We’re Reading: Flu Edition
By Stephanie Chester, MS, Senior Specialist, Influenza Programs, APHL Many of you have seen or heard the recent headlines: “Flu reaches epidemic level,” “Flu season strikes…
Infectious Diseases
On World AIDS Day, Do Your Part: Get Tested!
Since the first case of what came to be known as “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” (AIDS) was reported in 1981, the disease has spread across…
Beware of the Nose Pickers
By Kara MacKeil, BA, Senior Technician, Public Health Preparedness and Response, APHL Let’s all stop and think for a moment about why you, personally, should…
Avoiding Arboviruses — Don’t Let the Bugs Bite
By Celia Hagan, Senior Specialist, Infectious Disease Programs, APHL Arboviruses (arthropod borne viruses) have been all over the news lately. You’ve heard of the West…
What is all the whoop about?
By Celia Hagan, Senior Specialist, Infectious Disease Programs, APHL It is National Immunization Awareness Month and what better time to remind friends, family members and…
This Little Piggy Went to the Doctor
By Michelle Forman, Senior Media Specialist, APHL I love the county fair – I don’t know what I love the most (it’s the fried Oreos)…
One World. One Health… and the Vector at Our Back Door
You don’t have to explain to public health laboratorians that the health of humans, animals and the environment are inextricably linked. HIV/AIDS, SARS, 2009 H1N1,…
Flu Vaccine: How it finds its way into the needle
This week is National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week and National Environmental Laboratory Professionals Week. APHL is honoring the many individuals working public health and environmental laboratories around the world. Stay…
Hawaii’s Unique Public Health Challenges: Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea
By Caitlin Saucier, CDC/APHL Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory Training Fellow, State Laboratories Division, Hawaii Department of Health In honor of STD Awareness Month, I’d like…
Health Disparities: Improving Health Means Addressing Complex Issues
By: Asha Farrah, Newborn Screening and Genetics, APHL After attending the 3rd Annual Minority Health Conference at The George Washington University, I formed a better…