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biohazardous waste

Waste products—e.g., body fluids and tissues—which have the risk of carrying human pathogens. Biohazardous waste often originates from health care facilities and/or research laboratories, and places a relatively small or confined group of people at increased risk for infection during the time necessary for the infectious agent to dry or otherwise become inactive
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biohazardous waste

Public health Waste products–eg, body fluids and tissues, which may carry human pathogens; BW often originates from health care facilities and/or research laboratories, and places a relatively small or confined group of people at ↑ risk for infection during the time necessary for the infectious agent to dry or otherwise become inactive. See Regulated waste, Sharps.
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