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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said most people become infected by sharing needles or other equipment used to inject drugs, although the agency said people who receive body piercings or tattoos with nonsterile instruments are also at risk of becoming infected with hepatitis C.
Hepatitis C Drugs Await FDA Approval Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011
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Never use nonsterile water distilled water, tap water or any homemade saline solution.
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Never use nonsterile water (distilled water, tap water or any homemade saline solution).
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Most inks/pigments are from nonsterile bottles, but some companies do make sterile pigments, which cost hundreds of times more than the nonsterile ones which makes them hard to find.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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Most inks/pigments are from nonsterile bottles, but some companies do make sterile pigments, which cost hundreds of times more than the nonsterile ones which makes them hard to find.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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If someone is learning the rather complicated coordination of keeping one hand and everything it touches completely sterile while using the other hand to touch nonsterile things like the water bottle, the suction machine and tubing, and my trach, then they need the freedom to screw up and get a safe kit without depriving me of a kit later in the day.
Like a lion -- A rant Kay Olson 2007
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The likelihood of option 3 depends on the existence of a supernatural Creator who cares about a nonsterile universe.
The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006
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The likelihood of option 3 depends on the existence of a supernatural Creator who cares about a nonsterile universe.
The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006
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Cuts can become infected if a person uses nonsterile or dirty cutting instruments - razors, scissors, pins, or even the sharp edge of the tab on a can of soda.
catpewk Diary Entry catpewk 2005
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Dyed pink, so they can keep track of them or quickly separate the sterile ones from the nonsterile ones when they check those little traps they have in orange trees all over the place.
The Black Ice Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1993
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