Scott Deitchman

TL;DR: Previous recommendations for the prevention, evaluation, and treatment of B virus infection in humans are updated and the role of newer antiviral agents in postexposure prophylaxis is considered.

TL;DR: Noise-induced hearing loss is a significant, often unrecognized health problem among U.S. adults, and discussions between patients and personal health care providers about hearing loss symptoms, tests, and ways to protect hearing might help with early diagnosis of hearing loss and provide opportunities to prevent harmful noise exposures.

TL;DR: Patients with suspected PHACT had findings consistent with cobalt toxicity, including thyroid, cardiac, and neurologic dysfunction, and no consensus has been reached regarding the management of Co-HP patients with systemic symptoms.

TL;DR: This report provides guidelines in the following six areas: response and consequence management planning, including the minimum components of a facility response plan; immediate response and evacuation; decontamination of potentially exposed workers to remove spores from clothing and skin and prevent introduction of B. anthracis into the worker's home and conveyances; laboratory confirmation of an ADS signal; steps for evaluating potentially contaminated environments.

TL;DR: The comprehensive public health investigation that followed a package containing ricin and a note threatening to poison water supplies was discovered in a South Carolina postal facility, becoming the first potential chemical terrorism event involving ricin in the United States.