Sentence examples for unclean needles from inspiring English sources

Concerns about diseases being transmitted through unclean needles led to the legislation.

It is most often transmitted by sharing unclean needles and syringes, Mr. Labus said.

Many of the experts at the conference agreed that newly infected people in the region tend to have contracted the virus from the growing number of prostitutes carrying AIDS, particularly in the Sudan, Djibouti and Somalia, and from repeated use of unclean needles among drug addicts.

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Alcohol use has also been linked to increased drug-related risk in St . Petersburg including use of unclean needles.

For a given mode of transmission, such as reuse of unclean needles or syringes, the transmission risk is dependent on the probability that the needle/syringe was used previously on an HCV infected person, which is HCV RNA prevalence.

A 15‐year‐old girl who only a month ago apologetically told her aunt that she had starting, smoking cigarettes—has died of hepatitis complications that a medical examiner says were apparently caused by her tak ing heroin with an unclean needle.

Injection drug use, use of an unclean needle, and unprotected sex with PWID in the past 6 months was positively associated with MVA.

In neighboring Libya for example, with an HCV RNA prevalence of less than 1% [ 134, 137], a reuse of an unclean needle is more than ten-fold less likely to lead to an HCV transmission than in Egypt where HCV RNA prevalence is 9.8% [ 1].

Much progress has been made in the avoidance of iatrogenic and occupational parenteral transmission unclean syringes and needles through single use technologies, serological screening of blood or blood products, and policies to reduce inadvertent needle sticks in an occupational health care setting.

Multiple injections and sharing needles in unclean slum-like conditions has led to between 60 and 90percentt of Roma drug users in these ghettos being infected with hepatitis C, which can cause fatal liver damage.