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Catherine Caldwell, RN, is a health writer at Biology Insights specializing in hospital infection control. A registered nurse for 11 years, she began in intensive care and continues to audit isolation precautions and hand hygiene per diem at an acute care hospital. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center with a bachelor of science in nursing. Between clinical shifts and baking stoneware pottery in a community kiln, Caldwell explains bacterial pathogens and contamination risks.

Can Touching a Dead Animal Make You Sick?Immunity
Can Hand Sanitizer Kill Fungus?Immunity
Can You Get Sick From Chicken Poop?Immunity
How to Prevent a Serratia Marcescens Infection Immunity
Why Don’t Doctors Give Antibiotics for Viral Infections?Drugs
Can You Get a Disease From Touching a Pigeon?Immunity
What Percentage of People Carry Staphylococcus Aureus?Immunity
Why Don’t Doctors Prescribe Antibiotics?Drugs
Can H. Pylori Live on a Toothbrush?Immunity
Can Humans Get Listeria From Goats?Immunity
Can You Get MRSA From a Spider Bite?Immunity
Can You Get Pink Eye From Using Someone Else’s Mascara?Eyes & ENT
How Long Does Hantavirus Live Indoors?Immunity
Does Hand Sanitizer Kill Pinworms?Immunity
Does Chlorine Kill Mono in Swimming Pools?Immunity
What Happens If a Mouse Scratches You?Pets & Farm
How Is Shigella Transmitted and How Can You Prevent It?Immunity
Why Is Candida Auris a Problem for Healthcare Facilities?Immunity
Does Tea Tree Oil Kill MRSA? What the Science Says Immunity
Can You Be Cured of a MRSA Infection?Immunity
Is a Human Nail Scratch Harmful?Skin & Hair
Does Alcohol Kill Worms? The Science Explained Substances
Does COVID-19 Affect Medical or Cosmetic Implants?Procedures
Can You Get Worms From Eating Raw Noodles?Nutrition
How to Prevent C. Diff From Recurring Immunity
Does Heat Kill Infection? From Fever to Sterilization Immunity
Can Serratia Marcescens Kill You?Immunity
What Causes Surgical Site Infections?Immunity
Can I Catch C. diff From My Husband?Immunity
Does Prednisone Help or Hurt a MRSA Infection?Drugs