Science news articles about 'blood borne diseases'

... C With over 170 million people infected worldwide by HCV, new therapeutic strategies for HVC—a blood-borne disease that affects the liver—are urgently needed. But one of the ...

... increases technicians' risk of infection with blood-borne diseases. Ellen Jo Baron, PhD, ... donations, she said — and created test cultures using the blood. Then, they ran a series of common diagnostic ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a blood-borne disease that causes inflammation of the liver and to which there is currently no vaccine available. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 3% of ...

... of a New Jersey doctor should get tested for blood-borne diseases because of an outbreak linked to his office that has led to more than two dozen being diagnosed with hepatitis B, ...

... commonly stuck by needles — putting them at risk of contracting potentially dangerous blood-borne diseases — and many of them fail to report the injuries to hospital authorities, according to a Johns ...