Letters to the EditorSafe disposal of clinical waste: where is the science?
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2011, Safety ScienceCitation Excerpt :The lack of correctly controlled storage may be linked to the observation that employees at many HCEs offered contaminated items for sale to scavengers and recycling operatives, mostly to melt down plastics for recycling, but sometimes for repackaging and resale (Patwary et al., 2011b). The scavenged items which are repacked and resold to the public may create a cycle of disease transmission (Borg, 2005). According to a WHO report (2004), injections with contaminated syringes in a single year (2000) caused 21 million hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections (32% of all new infections), 2 million hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections (40% of all new infections), and at least 260,000 HIV infections (5% of all new infections) in the world (WHO, 2004).
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