CHSWC Study Finds Workers outside Health Care Face little Risk of Needle Stick Infections

Despite concern from California state legislators, a study from the University of California, Berkeley has determined that the risk for infections of workers stuck with needles outside the health care industry is nearly nonexistent. Frank Neuhauser, a faculty member in the university's Survey Research Center, reported to the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation at its Thursday meeting in Oakland that the maximum chance of a non-health care worker getting infected with hepatitis B or C or human immunodeficiency virus is 40 in 1,000,000. That's the high estimate...