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By Carol A. Sheridan, RN, MSN, CIC, Associate Director of Infection Prevention, Montefiore Medical Center  Manhattan Voice  November 29, 2024 Follow @x NEW YORK - Preparing for holiday gatherings and traveling can be stressful for many reasons and feeling ill during the holiday season can certainly ruin the festivities. One way to safeguard yourself and your family is to connect with your primary care doctor or nurse practitioner to get tailored advice, weighing your individual risk and the benefits of vaccination for illnesses like COVID, RSV and influenza. Each person has individual characteristics that can increase or decrease their likelihood of moderate to severe illness this viral season. Some factors that can impact your risk of getting severely ill from respiratory viruses are: * Your Age: 65 and older or under 2 years old. * Conditions that affect airways like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD] ...

Food Poisoning: What causes it and how to avoid it An infectious disease expert shares the symptoms, treatment, and how you can protect yourself from food borne illnesses.  This article originally in NewYork-Presbyterian Health Matters. By Camille Bautista-Fryer  Manhattan Voice  November 27, 2024 Follow @x NEW YORK - We’ve all had that unpleasant feeling of nausea and pangs from an upset stomach after eating. While those symptoms can be a result of indigestion or a digestive condition, such as IBS, they could also be due to a food-borne illness. Every year, an estimated 1 in 6 people in the United States get food poisoning from ingesting food with harmful bacteria, parasites, or viruses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Widespread food-borne illnesses are often linked to food contaminated during the farming or preparation process. Recently, dozens of people got sick from an E. coli ...