Contagious Comments

From the Department of Epidemiology at Children's Hospital Colorado

2013

• February-March: Update on Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis (.pdf)

2012

• November/December: Respiratory Season 2012-13 (.pdf)
• October: What's Up with Flu in 2012-13 (.pdf) 
• July: Bugs and Drugs (.pdf)
• June: Top Ten Questions Regarding International Travel with Children (.pdf)
• May: Our Top Ten Tick Topics (.pdf)
• April: Measles and Coxsackie Virus (.pdf)
• March: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Colorado's Children 2011 (.pdf)
• January: The Story of an Outbreak-Norovirus (.pdf)

2011

• December: Special Edition: Holiday Potlucks (.pdf)
• Nov-Dec: Respiratory Season (.pdf)
• October: Influenza (.pdf)
• September: Bugs and Drugs (.pdf)
• July: Interactive Water Fountains- A Modern Day Broadstreet Pump (.pdf)
• June: Clostridium difficile Returns with a Vengeance (.pdf)
• February: Bronchiolitis 2011: Questions and Answers from the Emergency Department at TCH (.pdf)
• February: Special Edition: State of the Health of Colorado's Children (.pdf)

2010

• December: Respiratory Season (.pdf)
• November: Vaccine Preventable Diseases (.pdf)
• October: Influenza 2010-11 (.pdf) 
• August: Blood Culture (.pdf)
• July: Bugs and Drugs (.pdf)
• April: New Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Licensed (.pdf)
• March: Bed, Bugs and Beyond (.pdf)
• January: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Colorado’s Children, 2009 (.pdf)

Archive of Past Issues

2009

• December: Respiratory Season (.pdf)
• September: H1N1 & Seasonal Influenza FAQs (.pdf)
• July: Bugs and Drugs (.pdf)
• April: H1N1 (Swine flu) FAQs (.pdf)
• January: MRSA (.pdf)

2008

• December: Respiratory Season 2008-2009 (.pdf)
• October: Influenza 2008-09 (.pdf)
• July: Bugs & Drugs (.pdf)
• June: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Colorado’s Children, 2007 (.pdf)
• April: Safe Injection Practices: An Important Review (.pdf)
• February: Hand Hygiene: The How, the Why and the When (.pdf)

*We have archived the Contagious Comments issues for 2004 to 2007. Copies of these issues may be obtained from the Department of Epidemiology, or by calling (720) 777-6072.