unsterile

People who used intravenous drugs, snorted cocaine with a shared straw, or had an unsterile tattoo or body piercing could be infected with hepatitis C and not realize it.

Health Danger of Parties Past 2010

Very lucky, I was told, considering the unsterile nature of goldfish ponds.

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

Some were lucky and got skilled doctors; others had physical problems for years thanks to unsterile conditions or unskilled providers, and the unluckiest of all died at the hands of such people.

Caryl Rivers: Backsliding on Roe 2009

Any nurse would know the consequences for a patient: pain during surgery and possibly serious infection from unsterile saline, he said.

ProPublica: Problem Nurses Stay on the Job As Patients Suffer 2009

Anyone who has worked in a hospital, shared cocaine straws or had ears pierced with unsterile equipment is also at risk.

Do You Have Hepatitis C? 2008

I would defy them to ask this question of any woman who has undergone unaneasthetized, unsterile genital mutilation at the hands of her own family.

The Gor books 2007

Last week the Herald said that there was a danger that unsterile implements were being used in at least three hospitals because a coal shortage meant that autoclaving machines were not functioning.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

She visits a back street abortionist, where an unsterile knitting needle is inserted into her vagina.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

There are subtle differences: powdered, non-powdered; sterile, unsterile.

CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2001 2001

There are subtle differences: powdered, non-powdered; sterile, unsterile.

CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2001 2001