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ORS, Division of Occupational Health and Safety

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Aside from human blood, the Bloodborne Pathogen Standard recognizes that pathogens infectious to humans are or may be present in

• human body fluids
• primary human cell culture
• unfixed human tissue or organs
• culture media or solutions containing any pathogen that may be infectious in blood
• HIV containing cell or tissue cultures
• animals experimentally infected with a human pathogen

 

Many human pathogens can be infectious in blood. The Standard, however, only specifically names HIV and Hepatitis B & C viruses.