BLOOD BORNE DISEASES

Blood borne diseases are those diseases caused due to contact of blood of a diseased or infected person with your blood. The most common examples are HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and viral haemorrhagic fevers. Malaria and Degue etc are also caused due to infection of blood , but in these disease there is no direct contact of blood to blood, instead these are caused by biting of insects. Just by seeing blood ,one canot say, that it is infective or not, or whether it will cause disease on contact, it is always wise enough to consider every blood sample as infective & take precaution with it's contact in any ways & mean. Common routes through which blood borne diseases can infect you are : (i) blood transfusion (ii) common needle use (commonly seen in drug addicts), (iii) direct contact (iv) unprotected sexual act (v) common use of shaving blades & razors, (vi) from mother to the foetus during pregnancy & child birth.