Sentence examples for contaminated needle from inspiring English sources

The purpose of this is twofold: to track the actual return rates (on a per usage basis, to evaluate the needle exchange program efficacy); and to locate the contaminated needles and collect them to prevent the general public (or "needle retrievers") from accidentally pricking oneself with an HIV/Hepatitis contaminated needle.

These are unlikely to contract the disease (except e.g. through receiving contaminated blood or being attacked with a contaminated needle).

Other possibilities include fruit contaminated by bat droppings or an injection using a contaminated needle.

Thirty-four percent were unaware that contaminated blood, contaminated needles, unprotected sex with an infected person, and birth to an infected mother are all modes of HBV transmission.

Others got it from sharing contaminated needles.

Evidence has existed for years that H.I.V. spreads swiftly among addicts who share contaminated needles.

A few health care workers were infected when they accidentally stuck themselves with contaminated needles.

Contaminated needles cause 5 percent to 10 percent of all the world's H.I.V. infections, the study estimated.

More than 7,000 children in the country were infected from 1987 to 1990 by contaminated needles and unscreened blood.

Because AIDS spreads through sexual activity, contaminated needles among drug injectors and from mothers to children, it still afflicts mostly young adults.

At one time, the worst things the specially trained environmental police were called to deal with were corrosive acids, toxic asbestos, contaminated needles and medical waste.