We know that infection prevention and control saves lives, and frontline healthcare workers play a critical role. We are keeping our 2026 Learning Needs Assessment Survey open so that we can better serve your infection prevention educational needs.
Georgia Infection Prevention Collaborative Webinar Series
Amy Rowell has joined the Region M Healthcare Coalition as its new coordinator. She can be reached at amy.rowell@coffeeregional.org, (912) 384-1900 ext. 5633 (o), or (912) 393-5943 (c).
Tropical Storm Isaias has formed off eastern Mexico on Wednesday morning and is expected to develop into the first hurricane of the season before hitting the Gulf Coast this week.
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) urges healthcare providers to strongly consider acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in patients with sudden flaccid limb weakness, especially 1-2 weeks after respiratory or gastrointestinal illness with fever. AFM is a rare, serious paralytic disease that mainly affects children. Enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68) has been identified as the main enterovirus responsible for AFM observed during 2014, 2016, and 2018.
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) assessed the risk of a near-term U.S. public health emergency stemming from a suspected pneumonic plague death at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute as extremely low, with no operational deployment of personnel, equipment, or medical countermeasure assets required at this time.
ThePennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) announced that 1,004 measles cases have been confirmed across 39 counties in Pennsylvania so far in 2026. The Department continues to lead Pennsylvania’s robust response to the ongoing measles outbreak and is making the most up-to-date information on cases, hospitalizations, and deaths available on their measles dashboard.
Identify, Isolate and Inform: It is important to continueto ask travel questions. The purpose of this notice is to remind healthcare providers about actions to take in Georgia when evaluating patients for possible serious communicable diseases.
Travel Clinical Assistant (TCA)
TheTravel Clinical Assistantprovides post-travel clinical information on travel-related diseases for 231 countries. Diseases with recent outbreaks occurring in the last two years are listed first.
