NIOSH Testimony on Health Effects of Medical Waste by R. W. Niemeier April 28, 1989.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This testimony contains the comments from NIOSH regarding the request from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry concerning the health effects of medical waste. Several points at issue are raised, including the description of the potential for infection or injury from the segregation, handling, storage, treatment, or disposal of medical wastes; an estimate of the number of people injured or infected annually by sharp objects and the nature and seriousness of those injuries or infections; an estimate of the number of people infected annually by other means related to waste segregation, handling storage, treatment, or disposal, and the nature and seriousness of those infections; and for diseases possibly spread by medical wastes, including Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and Hepatitis-B, an estimate of what percentage of the total number of cases nationally may be traceable to medical wastes.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  AIDS-virus; Disease-transmission Health-care-personnel Infectious-diseases Laboratory-workers Niemeier-R-W NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Testimony Nurses Nursing Physicians Waste-disposal

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00196228
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1989 Apr:4 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1989
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Infectious Diseases ; AIDS Virus
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180418/cdc_180418_DS1.pdf
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