Postexposure Interventions to Prevent Infection With HBV, HCV, or HIV, and Tetanus in People Wounded During Bombings and Other Mass Casualty Events—United States, 2008: Recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

People wounded during bombings or other events resulting in mass casualties or in conjunction with the resulting emergency response may be exposed to blood, body fluids, or tissue from other injured people and thus be at risk for bloodborne infections such as hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, hu...

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Published in:	Disaster medicine and public health preparedness 2008-10, Vol.2 (3), p.150-165
Main Authors:	Chapman, Louisa E., Sullivent, Ernest E., Grohskopf, Lisa A., Beltrami, Elise M., Perz, Joseph F., Kretsinger, Katrina, Panlilio, Adelisa L., Thompson, Nicola D., Ehrenberg, Richard L., Gensheimer, Kathleen F., Duchin, Jeffrey S., Kilmarx, Peter H., Hunt, Richard C.
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Language:	English
Subjects:	Bacterial infections Communicable Disease Control - methods Community involvement Diphtheria Disaster Medicine - methods Disaster recovery Disasters Disease control Disease prevention Emergency medical care Emergency preparedness Explosions Health care Health Personnel Health surveillance Hepatitis Hepatitis B - blood Hepatitis B - prevention & control Hepatitis B - transmission Hepatitis C - blood Hepatitis C - prevention & control Hepatitis C - transmission HIV HIV Infections - blood HIV Infections - prevention & control HIV Infections - transmission Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Immunization Infections Injuries Mass Casualty Incidents Occupational Exposure - prevention & control Public health Rescue Work Suicide bombings Teenagers Terrorism Tetanus Tetanus - blood Tetanus - prevention & control Tetanus - transmission Trauma Vaccines Websites Whooping cough Wounds and Injuries - blood Wounds and Injuries - microbiology Wounds and Injuries - therapy
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