Universal precautions

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In health care, universal precautions are "prudent standard preventive measures to be taken by professional and other health personnel in contact with persons afflicted with a communicable disease, to avoid contracting the disease by contagion or infection. Precautions are especially applicable in the diagnosis and care of AIDS patients."[1]

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  1. ↑ Anonymous (2024), Universal precautions (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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