Blood-borne disease

The disease, botulism, which is caused by Clostridium botulinium, is an emerging infectious disease. Clostridium botulinium is a bacterium that produces a neurotoxin that causes botulism. The bacterium is spore-forming, and anaerobic, meaning it does not need oxygen to grow. There are three main types of illnesses that Clostridium botulinium typically cause: Food-borne botulism, infant botulism, and wound botulism. Unbeknownst to common knowledge, infant botulism is the most common form of the

The Thomas Cancer Research Center Safety Policies Introduction The top three major safety and health issues at The Thomas Research Cancer Center are blood-borne pathogens, chemical hazards, and workplace violence. Methods in communicating these hazards are integrating patient and workplace safety programs. Keeping our employees safe and healthy is a priority with this organization, but can bring about many challenges. The Thomas Research Cancer Center is apprehensive with both patient and worker

Pulmonary embolism arises as a thrombus formation or blood-borne substance from vascular wall damage, venous stasis, or blood hypercoagulability and obstruct blood flow. Due to trauma, clot dissociation, sudden muscle spasm, intravascular pressure changes, or peripheral blood flow changes can cause the thrombus to loosen and relocate throughout the body (Porth 2004). The thrombus breaks off and travels through the blood stream, this is now called an embolus. Pulmonary embolism is when the the embolus

patients from cross-contamination. There has been one reported case of Hepatitis B transmitted from patient-to-patient. It was caused from improper cleaning of blood on patient items. The patient had been reported by his or her doctor to the state health department for hepatitis B (HBV). The patient had “no traditional risk factors for the disease” (1). The two patients had gone through surgery right after another. The epidemiology laboratory confirmed that it was caused by improper cleaning of patient

to clients via the operative site, access of peripheral or central catheter, and the use of invasive devices. Furthermore, blood-borne pathogens can be introduced to the patients by the use of unsafe injection practices. Unsafe handling of soiled sharps or sharps without safety locking mechanisms, places the healthcare workers at a higher risk for exposure to blood-borne pathogens (Patrick and Hicks, 2013). Application of standard precaution in those clinical settings can contribute to lower risk

Lady bites the dust in the wake of contracting uncommon tick-borne infection Distributed July 12, 2017 Fox News The lady's family, not envisioned, said she pulled two ticks off her body in the weeks before falling sick. The lady's family, not envisioned, said she pulled two ticks off her body in the weeks before falling sick. (iStock) The group of a Missouri lady who kicked the bucket from an uncommon tick-borne sickness is standing up about the perils of the infection, which has just been

is involving the brain. This is a viral, blood-borne, contagious, disease which is spread to other equines by horse or deer fly ingestion of contaminated blood, or through human error by using a blood infected contaminated needle to vaccinate uninfected equine. Although there is no vaccination for this disease, it has been heavily researched for a vaccine or controllable treatment. Acute, subacute, and inactive are three (3) varieties of this disease. “Acute EIA develops suddenly, producing high

Safe injection sites are medically supervised and legally sanctioned facilities that provide a clean and safe environment for illicit drug users when consuming drugs, mostly intravenous drugs. Safe injection sites have been a controversial topic in Canada for over fifteen years. Currently there is only one safe injection site in Canada located in Vancouver and there are various requests to open safe injection sites in other Canadian cities. The main opposition comes from the Canadian Federal Government

Water borne illness in third world countries Danielle H Woods Ivy Tech Community College October 16, 2013 Water borne illness in third world countries Third countries have myriad problems that interrelate in intricate ways to cause a series of problems for their citizens. One major problem in the third world countries is the disease burden. Waterborne diseases make a major contribution to diseases’ burden in the third world. As per the World Health Organization, waterborne diseases contribute

Many drug users inject drugs such as heroine into their blood stream with needles or syringes. Not everyone is exposed to sterile needles so many share the same needle, which can be the leading cause of diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C. So, the U.S. government has come up with some “brilliant” funded programs to supply clean needles to drug users, so the risk of sharing needles and diseases decreases. According to “Drug Use and HIV Risk Practices of Secondary and Primary Needle Exchange Users”