Jensen made the hospital’s transplant list in October and got that call in November — right after being treated for shingles, making him ineligible until the virus was out of his system. Again, the hospital wants transplant patients to succeed. “They have to be healthy all over besides th...
Your chances of catching a disease from a single needle stick are usually very low. About 1 out of 300health careworkers accidentally stuck with a needle from someone withHIVget infected. But forhepatitis B, the odds can be as high as nearly 1 in 3 if the worker hasn’t been vaccinated...