Syringe–Transmitted Hepatitis

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The occurrence of a severe form of hepatitis often referred to as "homologous serum jaundice" following injections of normal or immune plasma, serum or whole blood or after inoculations of certain vaccines containing normal serum or plasma is now well recognized. This type of hepatitis was observed in widespread epidemics in military personnel during the war and has also occurred not infrequently in civilian practice.Attention is now being focused on a new mode of transmission of this serious form of hepatitis—namely, by means of the unsterile or inadequately sterilized needle or syringe. British workers have called attention to the . . .