In recognition of National Safety Month--June, the GPO is offering for sale several publications focusing on safety risks and injury prevention applicable to the workplace, public transportation, home, and community of Americans. - June 2006

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NIOSH is seeking comments from our stakeholders on a draft training presentation, "Safe Patient Handling and Movement Principles.

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Attached is the MMWR table and an email from Dr. Atkinson of CDC. Thanks to Deb Rivera RN COHN, Occupational Health Nurse fromChildren's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics, Kansas City, MO sharing the information with us.

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Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center is pleased to announce the launch of an online audio-based course, "Targeted Testing and Treatment of Latent TB Infection: An Online Presentation." Dr. Masae Kawamura, Director of the San Francisco TB Control Program, narrates this 60 minute slide presentation for healthcare professionals, and introduces the new blood test for TB. It is approved for 1 contact hour of continuing education (Category 1 CME/Nursing CE) credit.

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WISCONSIN DIVISION - OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Bureau of Communicable Diseases & Preparedness

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This 21-page monograph, released by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID), is an all-inclusive report with detailed information about influenza immunization rates among healthcare workers and strategies healthcare institutions can use to improve annual influenza vaccination rates among employees.

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