Use a bag valve mask (BVM) to minimize possible bloodborne exposure. Using the BVM will allow the use of a mask on the face to minimize airborne exposure.
You can get an infectious disease through airborne transmission, bloodborne transmission, sexual transmission, or oral/fecal route, to name a few. Tuberculosis is airborne, HIV is bloodborne or sexual, polio is oral/fecal.
HIV is not an airborne pathogen. It is a bloodborne pathogen.
HIV can't be spread by breathing. It is a bloodborne, not airborne, pathogen.
The common cold is not blood-borne. It is usually airborne. Droplets can be picked up from surfaces.
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No, cancer is not contagious, by contact, water, food or air. However, some very rare causes of cancer can be airborne, but only in very radioactive areas.
Hepatitis B is the bloodborne pathogen with a vaccine available.
is NOT a likely route of entry for a bloodborne pathogen
Yes, bloodborne infections can be transmitted through an open cut.
Mesothelioma is a form of lung cancer that is CAUSED by exposure to airborne asbestos fibers being inhaled.
bloodborne pathogens can be transmitted inthe air