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  2. Ebola in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Ebola virus disease in the United Kingdom and Ireland has occurred rarely in four cases to date, namely three health workers returning from treating victims of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa in 2014 and 2015, and a single case in 1976, when a laboratory technician contracted the disease in a needlestick injury while handling samples from Africa.

  3. Needlestick injury - Wikipedia

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    Needlestick injuries are among the top three injuries that occur among material-recovery facility workers who sort through trash to remove recyclable items from the community-collected garbage. [41] Housekeeping and janitorial workers in public sites, including hotels, airports, indoor and outdoor recreational venues, theaters, retails stores ...

  4. Needle and syringe programmes - Wikipedia

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    The British public body, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), introduced a recommendation in April 2014 due to an increase in the number of young people who inject steroids at UK needle exchanges. NICE previously published needle exchange guidelines in 2009, in which needle and syringe services were not advised for ...

  5. Occupational injury - Wikipedia

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    For example, there is limited needlestick injury awareness among agriculture workers, and there is a need for comprehensive programs to prevent needlestick injuries on livestock operations. [28] Proper animal handling techniques and training, or stockmanship, can also decrease the risk of livestock injury.

  6. Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences ...

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    The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013, often known by the acronym RIDDOR, is a 2013 statutory instrument of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It regulates the statutory obligation to report deaths , injuries , diseases and "dangerous occurrences", including near misses, that take place at work or in ...

  7. FDA Issues Urgent Warning on Dangers of Common Dog Medication

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    The news outlet reports the medication works using monoclonal antibodies that block the activity of nerve growth factor, a protein that helps transmit pain signals in the body.

  8. Safety syringe - Wikipedia

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    A safety syringe is a syringe with a built-in safety mechanism to reduce the risk of needlestick injuries to healthcare workers and others. The needle on a safety syringe can be detachable or permanently attached. On some models, a sheath is placed over the needle, whereas in others the needle retracts into the barrel.

  9. Intramuscular injection - Wikipedia

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    There is also a risk of nerve or vascular injury if a nerve or blood vessel is inadvertently hit during injection. If single-use or sterilized equipment is not used, there is the risk of transmission of infectious disease between users, or to a practitioner who inadvertently injures themselves with a used needle, termed a needlestick injury.