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biohazardous waste

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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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The hospital had refused to give the uterine lining to Swanson following the April 12 Caesarean birth of her daughter, with officials calling it contaminated biohazardous waste.
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