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while providing care to a patient, blood got onto the ambulance stretcher. because the stretcher was not properly cleaned afterward, a virus was transmitted to another emergency medical technician (emt) several days later. which route of transmission does this scenario describe?

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The route of transmission the scenario describes is Indirect contact.

What is Indirect Contact?

When there is no direct human-to-human contact, indirect contact transmission occurs. Contact occurs when a reservoir comes into contact with contaminated surfaces or objects, or with vectors like mosquitoes, flies, mites, fleas, ticks, rodents, or dogs.

Food, water, biologic products (blood), and fomites are examples of vehicles that may indirectly transmit an infectious agent (inanimate objects such as handkerchiefs, bedding, or surgical scalpels). A vehicle can passively transport a pathogen, just as food or water can.

Indirect person-to-person transmission occurs when the original host sheds pathogens into the environment, which then infects someone else.

Infections spread through indirect contact when an infected person sneezes or coughs.

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