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- 4. Employees who work outdoors in areas where the public access can't be controlled, and inside workers who work at places frequented by the public sometimes find used
- 5. Infection is caused by a virus that is found in some rodents, especially deer mice. The virus is rarely transmitted to people, but when it is, it can cause severe illness
- 6. By puncturing the skin with a sharp object contaminated with infected and body fluids
- 7. This does not spread HIV or hepatitis B or C unless you can see blood in it
- 8. Considered fragile outside the human body, it's not known how long it can live in discarded needles and sharps
- 9. Most workers won't ever come into contact with body fluids and
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- 1. If there is a sharps injury, allow the wound to bleed freely. Then wash the area throughly with non-abrasive soap and water
- 2. Virus infection occurs when the virus is transmitted to humans, primarily by bites from mosquitoes
- 3. If you are working in a grassy or wooded area, it is important to protect yourself from...
- 5. Can be spread by infected blood, they can also be spread by certain other infected body fluids