Interim-Planning Guidance for the Handling of Solid Waste Contaminated with a Category A Infectious Substance

U.S. Department of Transportation. 01/19/2017 This 82-page document provides federal guidance for the safe handling of solid waste contaminated with a Category A infectious substance and the proper management of inactivated Category A waste materials in the United States. An infectious substance meets Category A criteria if it is in a form capable of causing permanent disability or life-threatening or fatal disease in otherwise healthy humans or animals upon exposure to the substance (such as Ebola virus, Yersinia pestis, or Bacillus anthracis). (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - February 23, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news