In this risky world, we all try to be careful and healthy, keep ourselves safe, free of diseases and try to be hygienic. But healthy food, good hygiene, health checkups and a healthy lifestyle can only do so much. Our body can be threatened in many more ways, diseases and disease carrying pathogens can enter in many other ways. Take for instance bloodborne pathogens, the carriers of deadly viruses like Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV). They can spread easily through infected blood, cuts, wounds and handling of infected blood and body fluids. It is not just the doctors and nurses who work with the sick but many others who are at risk because their job requires them to handle blood and body fluids, some knowingly and others unknowingly.

Find out if you are safe and free from the risk of being infected by the deadly bloodborne pathogens. You are at a risk if:

– You are required to handle human blood and body fluids like serum, white blood cells, plasma or platelets. Laboratory workers, doctors and nurses and paramedics are at a high risk.

– You are required to handle human body secretions and fluids like vaginal secretions, seminal secretions, amniotic fluids or other secretions. Paramedics, doctors and nurses and laboratory workers are at a risk.

– You are required to handle urine, vomit, feces, nasal secretions or saliva. Laboratory workers come under this category.

– You are required to work in animal laboratories and deal with animals involved in Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV or bloodborne pathogens testing.

– You are required to work with human tissues or organs for laboratory work or testing purposes.

– You are required to deal directly with Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C preparations for research related purposes.

– You are required to work with blood, tissues, organs or fluids of animals which have been infected with Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C or HIV.

– You are required to handle sharp instruments like needles, scalpels, knives or scissors. There is a chance that a potentially infected person has previously used it and the bloodborne pathogens have already infected the instruments.

– You had a contact with an infected person’s cut, bruise or wound.

– You work in an industry where heavy and physical labour may bruise the skin. Those in the auto industry, driving, lumbering and other industries should be careful.

While laboratory workers, doctors, nurses and paramedics come under the highest risk, it is not uncommon for many to get infected without realizing it. When a helpful passerby helps someone in medical distress, or a student accidentally cuts himself in his school laboratory and the infected blood or instruments infects a fellow students, they can also cause the transfer of bloodborne pathogens.

Bloodborne pathogens are very deadly when they enter the blood stream. It is good to be safe and be cautious. If your work is any of the above mentioned, or even remotely related to them, consider enrolling yourself for a bloodborne pathogen training course.

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