Right Under (and Up) Our Noses… And Evolving Before Our Eyes, Emerging & Re-emerging Diseases

This seminar explores personal health issues such as new and altered diseases of importance to dental professionals, including bloodborne diseases, and respiratory and contact diseases.  Attention is given to resistant pathogens, biofilm diseases, and pathogens with pandemic potential, particularly respiratory diseases, relative to occupational risk, illness prevention, and post-exposure responses.    Leave with a plan for managing today’s microbial challenges using Standard and Transmission-based precautions, including building air safety control.

At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Recognize and assess well-known infectious diseases,
• Be able to identify and explain current trends in infectious diseases,
• Be informed of and prepared for safety challenges,
• Select infection control and safety strategies for usual and unusual disease risks.