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There is no silver bullet for eliminating bed bugs. They present a challenge to modern pest control that the industry is still struggling to meet. To make up for the lack of chemical power we have for battling this insect, additional people and tools must be involved. Bed bug success stories usually involve people who live and work in a building (including a pest management professional) coming together as a team to battle this pest.
Once bed bugs have been confirmed in the living area of an individual or family, there may be good reason to move them to a different area or apartment while the infested one is treated. However bed bugs may be transferred with personal belongings, causing more trouble in the new living space.
Bed Bugs are a difficult problem for apartments and multi-family units. It can be very expensive to treat an infested property. However, not addressing the problem will only make the infestation worse and more costly for you. One of the most important things property owners/managers can do is to educate their residents about bed bugs.
This publication covers bed bug prevention, management and control, education and awareness, and is specifically geared toward public agencies and private or public housing administrators and their facilities management teams. It is applicable to other types of living situations, though techniques and recommendations may need to be adapted.
Second-hand smoke, even in small amounts, is proven harmful to children and adults. It can bring on an asthma episode. Children are most frequently exposed to second-hand smoke in the car and in the home. A top protection is to eliminate tobacco in the car and home. The best way to protect a child from second-hand smoke is eliminating smoking in the car and home.
Provides all the information required to investigate rabies cases including a summary of the disease, agent details, mode of transmission, period of communicability, incubation period, diagnosis, prophylaxis, surveillance, control measures, and more.
This helpful document provides answers to frequently asked questions about HIV/AIDS case reporting.
Health care providers are the eyes and ears of public health. Reporting makes it possible to detect failures of work place health and safety protection and prevent further illness and injury due to work. This document explains the most frequently asked questions we receive regarding occupational notifiable conditions reporting.
Before placing vaccines in a new refrigerator unit, follow these simple steps to ensure success.
This fact sheet explains what the plague is, how people get it, common forms of plague, how to protect yourself, and more.
Audiologist section of the newborn hearing screening program manual.
This flowchart explains the Auditory Brainstem Response hospital screening protocol in detail for use by healthcare providers.
This glossary of terms makes understanding the terminology used when talking about newborn hearing screening much easier. It explains such terms as auditory brainstem response, audiogram, audiologist, early intervention, and dozens more.
This form makes it easy for physician’s to track a baby’s hearing screening follow-up tasks from birth to 6 months old.
Explains the many reasons why you should continue with follow-up visits if your baby does not pass newborn hearing screening.
Explains requirements for initial hearing screening, rescreening of infants who refer, infants not screened prior to discharge, infants who pass screen but have an identified risk factor, hospital documentation and communication of screening results, hospital screening requirements, and more.
Since 1999, the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing has advocated for appropriate and necessary care for the infant with hearing loss to be directed and coordinated by the child’s physician within the medical home with support from appropriate ancillary services.
Since the first universal newborn hearing screening programs were established in the early 1990s, there has been significant progress. Progress is evident in the development and implementation of protocols for newborn hearing screening, pediatric audiologic evaluation of newborns, fitting of amplification, and medical management of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
When a hearing loss is first diagnosed, the test results may seem confusing. Although hearing loss is often described as a percentage, it is too complex to describe with one number. Remember, also, that determining how your child uses, or will use, his or her residual hearing is a process.
This document explains why physicians check newborn hearing screen status and provide needed follow-up.