Infectious medical waste refers to medical waste that can cause a contagious disease. Medical waste is considered capable of producing a contagious disease if it has been or is likely to have been contaminated by an organism that is pathogenic to healthy humans if such living thing is not frequently and freely available in the community, and if such organism has a substantial chance of being present in sufficient quantities and with adequate virulence to spread disease. Infectious medical waste consists of the following materials:
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