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True/False: Hand washing and hand care is extremely important in your protection against Blood borne Pathogens. You should wash your hands with an abrasive soap as soon as personal protective equipment is removed.

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  • False is Right Answer.
  1. Bloodborne pathogens are microorganisms, for example, infections or microbes that are conveyed in blood and can cause sickness in individuals.
  2. There are a wide range of bloodborne pathogens including intestinal sickness, syphilis, and brucellosis, however Hepatitis B (HBV) and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are the two ailments explicitly tended to by the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standard.
  3. Washing hands when patient contact appears to be a basic answer for forestall the spread of microorganisms between patients.
  4. Hand washing (or handwashing), otherwise called hand cleanliness, is the demonstration of cleaning hands to expel soil, earth, and microorganisms.
  5. The fundamental clinical reason for washing hands is to purge the hands of pathogens (microscopic organisms, infections, or different microorganisms that can cause sickness).
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