Knowing what your rights are if you become disabled and what duty you have to protect a sensitized patient from exposure helps make this occupational hazard less of a burden to bear. Its Web site includes a comprehensive listing of other sites on latex allergy. American Nurses Association. If you're injured by a patient. Dos and don'ts.
Allergies lead to wave of lawsuits against latex glove manufacturers.
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