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Section 4: Infective Waste

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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There is no epidemiologic evidence to suggest that most hospital waste is any more infective than residential waste. Moreover, there is no epidemiologic evidence that hospital waste disposal practices have caused disease in the community. Therefore, identifying wastes for which special precautions are indicated is largely a matter of judgment about the relative risk of disease transmission. Aesthetic and emotional considerations may override the actual risk of disease transmission, particularly for pathology wastes.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , April 1986, pp. 241 - 242
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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