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Paper cut
Hi,
I was collecting some paper from the printer in my office and I got a papercut on my hand. I don't know how many people have handled this paper or if they perhaps got a paper cut too before me. Can you get Hep C from a paper cut?
Thanks
I was collecting some paper from the printer in my office and I got a papercut on my hand. I don't know how many people have handled this paper or if they perhaps got a paper cut too before me. Can you get Hep C from a paper cut?
Thanks
There may be a study on How HCV has Evolved from Copy/Fax Machines to Email and now is moving to Facebook.
Hopefully the expert on this aspect, Copyman, will bring his opinion to the question. I wonder if a HCV transmitted via a copy machine would be more likely to replicate at higher speed than an infection via a fax machine.
Nothing as painful as a parer cut huh! Actually the time I near severed my leg off with a chainsaw was close....
Seroiusly tho.. handling paper at the office is a no risk behavoiur and you could not contract HCV that way
Hepc is a Blood Borne Disease. Meaning it can only be transmitted from Blood to Blood Contact. If there was no Blood on the paper, you were at no risk.
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