[Jewelry making - Article 00116] - Re: [Orchid] Health hazards from Customer Jewelry?

[Judy Willingham]

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Hello Orchid land,

    	Regarding the comment that the HVC (and HVB) virus lives quite a
    while on dry metal surfaces, it is environmentally stable for 7 days
    according to my reference.  However: the surface would have to be
    dirty as the virus would be in some sort of body fluid, usually
    human blood.  Dried blood on a needle for example.  Then the dirty
    needle (or earring?) would have to penetrate the skin or enter an
    open sore to infect a person. 	 Point being, common sense dictates
    that we don't do the following with dirty jewelry: puncture/ scratch
    ourselves or put it in any of our body orifices.  We clean up the
    jewelry to remove all gunge before working on it... which has to be
    done anyway.  Then we wash our hands after handling dirty things -
    the most important infection control action for everyday activities. 

    	I don't want to discuss this to death, so I will refer those
    interested to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) publication
    on Hepatitis C: 

    ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Publications/mmwr/rr/rr4719.pdf 

    	It's rather dry, but covers HVC.  Although dated 1998, the CDC is
    pretty careful to update materials that have lost validity. 	Judy in
    Kansas, who just wants to keep it simple. 


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