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Plant nurse
by Plant Nurse, Aug 24, 2007 08:32AM
How long does the hepitis virus live in dried blod?
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from the article...
" Now the subject of dried vs fresh blood is not completely cleared. For the record, you should consider any blood (fresh or dried) to be potentially infectious. I would suspect that blood that has dried recently to be infectious though I am not certain of this. I am frequently asked how long can the hepatitis C virus live in dried blood. We really don’t have an answer to that because we would have to leave infected blood in the open for varying amounts of time and then try to infect chimpanzees (chimps and humans are the only species that can carry the hepatitis C virus to date). Or we would need to find some one with hepatitis C who is certain that their only exposure was dried blood that had sat for a known interval. I haven’t seen any information to that effect. Again, I would assume that any blood is potentially infectious"
are you a plant doctor?
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