Faceshields and goggles should be worn whenever procedures with a high potential for creating aerosols are conducted. These include necropsy of infected animals, harvestig of tissues, or fluids from infected animals and manipulations of high concentrations or large volumes of infectious materials. Appropriate eye and face protection shoul dalso be worn by all personnel entering animal rooms housing non-human primates.
This article was published on Sunday 29 January, 2006.