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Showing posts with label syringes. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

New Syringe Design Not Particularly Effective at Curbing Spread of Hepatitis C Virus

As many as 21 million people worldwide inject drugs, putting them at heightened risk for infection from blood-borne pathogens such as the hepatitis C virus (HCV), especially if syringes are shared.

A newer type of syringe designed to reduce HCV transmission by decreasing the so-called dead space—the volume that exists between the syringe hub and needle in comparison to standard and widely used high dead space designs—is not particularly effective, a new Yale School of Public Health-led study has found.

The research is published today in the journal PLOS ONE.

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