What do health care workers do in the hospital to prevent anthrax from spreading to other people?
Anthrax is not easily spread from person to person, so only regular practices like hand-washing would be followed. What special cleaning is done with equipment used on a person with anthrax? No special cleaning is required, so regular procedures for disinfecting and sterilizing are done. What special things are done at home after a patient that had anthrax is discharged? There is nothing special to do. Following standard precautions is enough. These include: · Washing hands after touching blood or body fluid or items that may have touched a blood or body fluid. · Wearing gloves when touching blood or body fluids, and washing your hands after removing the gloves. · Clean infected equipment with a mixture of one part household bleach and nine parts water. For more information, contact the Centers for Disease Control www.cdc.
