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Infectious Diseases
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Report every exposure and seek immediate treatment!
| Disease | Spread by… | Risk to you… |
| AIDS / HIV | IV / sex / blood products | Lowers immune function, preumonias, cancer | Anthrax | Cutaneous: contact with skin | Infection =25% mortality, but much lower if treated |
| Ingestion: eating contaminated meat | Infection = high mortality, unless treated with antibiotics | |
| Pulmonary: inhaled spores | Infection = 95% morality, but much lower if treated | |
| Hepatitis A | Fecal-oral | Acute hepatitis |
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