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 General
preventive measures
- Health
education, training programmes for the personnel at risk.
- Scrupulous
compliance with the "universal precautions" to be followed
at all times with all patients, regardless of their pathology and
certainty of diagnosis.
- Employment
of appropriate personal protective devices (gloves, mask, white
coats).
- Abolition
of the manoeuvre of needles' covering.
- Collection
of sharp materials, syringes and needles in appropriate containers
before disposal.
Specific preventive interventions
At present, no vaccine is available against hepatitis C and neither is
any measure of post-exposure prophylaxis.
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