Occupational Exposure

Embalmers at Low Risk of Blood Infections on Job

Published in Blood Weekly, February 27th, 1995

Funeral service practitioners - embalmers and those who assist in performing autopsies - face a low level of work-related risk for bloodborne infections, according to an abstract presented by the authors to the 2nd National Conference on Human Retroviruses and Related Infections, held January 29-February 2, 1995, in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers contributed to the study of selected funeral service providers in the United States. Researchers conducted a seroepidemiologic study to estimate the risk of occupational infection with three bloodborne pathogens - HIV, Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV),...

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