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If clothing touched paper with fresh nonflowing blood, can clothes transmit disease? no blood stain on clothes. cuts on hands, what if touched clothes

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Blood borne pathogen: Most infectious agents carried by blood ( blood borne pathogens) enter the body through a break in the skin or mucous membranes. Clothing coming in contact with fresh blood should be a barrier to transmission of HIV and hepatitis C if skin is intact. Unfortunately, this is not true with Ebola virus. Cuts on the hands represent a break in the skin and are an avenue for HIV and hep C infection

Answered 12/19/2014

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