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Bloodborne Pathogen Clean Up Kits
A blood-borne disease is one that can be spread by contamination by blood.
The most common examples are HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and viral
haemorrhagic fevers. Diseases that are not usually transmitted directly by
blood contact, but rather by insect or other vector, are more usefully
classified as vector-borne disease, even though the causative agent can be
found in blood. Vector-borne diseases include West Nile virus and malaria.
Many blood-borne diseases can also be transmitted by other means. Since it is
difficult to determine what pathogens any given blood contains, and some
blood-borne diseases are lethal, standard medical practice regards all blood
(and any body fluid) as potentially infective. Blood and Body Fluid
precautions are a type of infection control practice that seeks to minimize
this sort of disease transmission. Blood poses the greatest threat to health
in a laboratory or clinical setting due to needle disposal techniques. Blood
for blood transfusion is screened for many blood-borne diseases. Needle
exchanges are an attempt to reduce the spread of blood-borne diseases in
intravenous drug users. One of the simplest and most effective ways to prevent
disease transmission is hand washing.
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