Sentences with phrase «contracting hepatitis»

As a result, needles and syringes are reused, which puts you at risk of contracting hepatitis B and C, HIV and other serious infections.

A transfusion runs the risk of contracting hepatitis, HIV or malaria.

Eight million people in the European Union may be at risk of contracting hepatitis B at work, despite a rule that came into force last month requiring employers to pay for workers at risk to be vaccinated.

The IGAS report recommends that the government pass laws making it compulsory for clinics to take stringent precautions to reduce the risks of contracting hepatitis C, including sterilisation of machines between patients.

PATIENTS who undergo kidney dialysis at some French clinics risk contracting hepatitis C from contaminated dialysis machines, warns a report from the Inspector General of Social Affairs.

When Ron Klein, inventor of the magnetic credit card strip, was 16, he contracted hepatitis and spent almost two years recovering.

Sunshine Coast About Blog This blog is dedicated to the millions of Baby Boomers who contracted hepatitis C and to the boom in medical research that could cure them.

And it was fairly obvious where she'd contracted the hepatitis, since she'd just come back from Afghanistan.

Humans and other animals are not at risk to contract hepatitis from the CAV - 1 virus.

Sunshine Coast About Blog This blog is dedicated to the millions of Baby Boomers who contracted hepatitis C and to the boom in medical research that could cure them.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, at least 106 people in eight states have contracted hepatitis A, a debilitating disease that can last for weeks or months, and even be deadly, after eating Townsend Farms frozen berries bought at the box store retailer.

I note Ms. MacEachern had already contracted hepatitis C which with her ongoing ingestion of multiple drugs would likely have progressed with liver damage and possible cirrhosis and eventual liver failure.

Sunshine Coast About Blog This blog is dedicated to the millions of Baby Boomers who contracted hepatitis C and to the boom in medical research that could cure them.

His wife left him; he had open heart surgery and then contracted hepatitis C in a blood transfusion.

Not exact matches

However, some of the vaccines given, such as one for hepatitis, a disease contracted from intravenous needle use and intercourse, are ones that babies are not at high risk of contracting.

Since the advent of air travel, people more frequently visit these regions and contract many of these diseases, most notably malaria and hepatitis.

Neides's column complained, among other things, about the vaccination of newborns against hepatitis B, which they can contract from their mothers in the birth canal.

In 2004 Yinon Ben - Neriah and Eli Pikarsky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and their colleagues reported that mice engineered to develop hepatitis (which can cause liver cancer) contracted precancerous lesions that did not progress to full malignancy when NF - kB was curtailed through a genetic alteration or when the proinflammatory TNF signaling molecule was shut off.

You've probably heard that actress Pamela Anderson has hepatitis C, which she says she contracted after sharing a tattoo needle with former husband Tommy Lee.

And of course, any procedure involving needles poses other risks, such as contracting tetanus, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C if those needles are contaminated.

Immunization is generally a good idea if you don't like the idea of your child contracting and possibly dying from diseases such as diptheria, whooping cough, mumps, measles, hepatitis, rotavirus, polio, etc, or if you don't like the idea of contributing to the chances of other not - yet vaccinated children contracting and possibly dying from these diseases.

With modified live virus vaccines (distemper, parvovirus, hepatitis), some animals can actually contract the same disease which they are being inoculated against.

(The artist had died the previous year after a lifelong battle with hepatitis contracted when he was in his late teens, shortly after the Nazi occupation of Belgium.)

There are several variants of the condition and hepatitis B and C can be contracted through blood to blood contact, which is why there is a potential danger of catching it as a result of unsterilised tattooing needles.

Contracting sexually transmitted diseases, including the potentially fatal HIV or hepatitis B or C.