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Sarah Barnett <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 May 1996 18:47:52 -0400
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This quote was posted in November 1995. (Not by me)

CDC: Update: Universal precautions for prevention of transmission of HIV,
Hepatitis B virus and other bloodborne pathogens in health-care settings.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports 37:378-87, 1988. (June 24, 1988)

<Universal precautions do not apply to feces, nasal secretions, sputum,
sweat, tears, urine, and vomitus unless they contain visible blood. The risk
of transmission of HIV and HBV from these fluids and materials is extremely
low or nonexistent.>

<...occupational exposure to human breast milk has not been implicated in the
transmission of HIV nor HBV infection to health-care workers. Moreover, the
health-care worker will not have the same type of intensive exposure to
breast milk as the nursing neonate. Whereas universal precautions do not
apply to human breast milk, gloves may be worn by health-care workers in
situations where exposures to breast milk might be frequent, for example, in
breast milk banking.>

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