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James Bingham, MS
Senior Research Microbiologist, GOJO
James Bingham is a senior research microbiologist who currently works on a team developing new hygiene technologies to prevent the transmission of pathogens. In addition to developing new technologies he has performed research in areas including Clostridium difficile spore biology, antimicrobial mechanisms of action, patient hand hygiene, and rapid microbial detection. He holds a master’s degree in food microbiology from North Carolina State University and an undergraduate degree in food science from Cornell University.
What Is Monkeypox? And Should I Be Concerned?
7/25/2022
By James Bingham, MS
Senior Research Microbiologist, GOJO
Also By Megan J. DiGiorgio, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC
Senior Clinical Manager, GOJO Industries
News coverage of the ongoing global monkeypox outbreak has been intense. With news that the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), many may be recalling the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the WHO declared it a PHEIC (on Jan. 30, 2020).
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