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Selected News Items and Updates for the Practicing Clinician

Zachary Mulkey MD^a

Correspondence to Zachary Mulkey MD. Email: zachary.mulkey @ttuhsc.edu

SWRCCC 2014;2(8):70.

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• Mandatory Ebola news updates.
                                                                                         
• Nurses in Boston are planning to sue Brigham and Women’s Hospital over their mandatory flu shot policy.

• Whether or not influenza vaccination helps pregnant women and their infants has been an ongoing question. The response to vaccination by patients with immune suppression is also an unknown. A recent study sheds some light on these issues.

• There may be a seasonal variation to Clostridium difficile infections.

• The Ebola pandemic has recently obscured the developing national problem with Enterovirus D68. To get the latest information from the CDC on this topic, click here.