Guidance

Bloodborne viruses: managing severe serial penetrating injuries

For managing risk of bloodborne viruses (BBVs) like hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV, after a severe serial penetrating injury attack.

From:
UK Health Security Agency
Published
6 June 2017
Last updated
3 October 2025 — See all updates

Documents

Management of potential bloodborne virus exposure following severe serial penetrating injury attack

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This guidance for clinical teams covers:

  • assessing risk of transmission of BBVs
  • post-exposure interventions for the management of BBVs
  • managing BBVs in severe serial penetrating injury attack

Updates to this page

Published 6 June 2017
Last updated 3 October 2025 + show all updates

  1. Amended post-exposure hepB vaccination period, and proportion of people with unknown HIV infection.

  2. Updated to HTML format.

  3. First published.

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