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Infection-control cleaning helps interrupt transmission during epidemics and pandemics.
High-touch surfaces, shared equipment and contaminated areas may require more frequent or targeted cleaning and disinfection.
Pandemics taught millions of people to disinfect surfaces.
But infection control starts with cleaning.
Organic material, dirt and other soil can interfere with some disinfectants. Removing contamination first allows the disinfection step to do the job it was designed to do.
During epidemics and pandemics, infection-control cleaning helps reduce contamination in the environment.
The goal isn't simply to make a building look clean. It is to remove soil, address contaminated surfaces and reduce opportunities for pathogens to spread.
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"We're watching and monitoring it closely."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms U.S. officials are closely tracking reports of a suspected plague breach at a Russian research laboratory.
The concern follows reports that a Russian lab technician was infected and died, triggering localized quarantine measures in the region. U.S. health and security agencies are actively monitoring the potential risk of containment failure.
"I don't think it's cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus and a cause to just keep an eye on. And we're doing that."
The U.S. State Department is monitoring a reportedly fatal case of "pneumonia of an unknown etiology" linked to a plague research laboratory in Russia.
Read more: https://t.co/QXgaBiFGWe
Not all contamination is equal. A surface may have little or no visible soil, or it may carry a heavy soil load made up of blood, body fluids, grease, dust, waste, or organic debris. The amount and type of soil directly affect how a surface must be cleaned.
The White House is monitoring a plague outbreak in Russia after a lab technician died and hundreds of people she came into contact with were placed in quarantine https://t.co/pUe7moxWhy 🔗
A surface can look perfectly clean and still be contaminated with biohazards. During COVID, people became familiar with disinfecting surfaces even when no soil was visible. Visible cleanliness and microbiological cleanliness are not the same thing. #BiohazardPRO#Decontamination
Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a suspected dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died. https://t.co/5ybLOnUh3C
Reports confirm one Irkutsk anti-plague lab worker died of pneumonia of unknown etiology. Officials state no work-related pathogens or lab accident found, situation stable, ~200 contacts observed with negative tests and no secondary cases. Pneumonic plague (if it were that) is bacterial, nearly always fatal untreated but highly responsive to early antibiotics. Not comparable to COVID: no evidence of spread beyond contacts, known and containable.