Occupational Exposure

CDC Study Lists On-the-Job HIV Risks

Published in Blood Weekly, February 27th, 1995

Concerns among healthcare workers about their risks of acquiring HIV infections on the job - through accidental needlesticks and other injuries involving breaks in the skin - prompted a recent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study.

CDC's Needlestick Surveillance Group, which included D. Cardo, P. Srivastava, C. Ciesielski, R. Marcus, P. McKibben, D. Culver and D. Bell, reported their findings at the 2nd National Conference on Human Retroviruses and Related Infections, held January 29-February 2, 1995, in Washington, D.C.

Their findings suggested that receiving a larger amount of infected blood, from a patient at later stage of...

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