Blood-borne disease

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A blood-borne disease is one that is spread by contamination by blood.

Examples include:

• AIDS
• the various forms of hepatitis
• West Nile virus
• parasites
  • malaria
  • babesiosis
• and others...

It should be noted that many blood-borne diseases can also be transmitted by other means.

Blood for blood transfusion needs to be screened for blood-borne diseases.

Needle exchanges are an attempt to reduce the spread of blood-borne diseases in intravenous drug users.

See also:

• blood test

External links

• http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/bloodbornepathogens/

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Blood-borne_disease" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood-borne_disease, used under the GNU Free Documentation License