When something terrible and violent happens, the least we expect are biohazards. Biohazards, germs, exist within our bodies. Release blood and other potentially infectious materials and sadly, the area becomes soiled by potentially biohazardous materials.
Biohazardous materials seldom catch our attention, but when massive blood loss occurs, biohazard cleanup should be at the tip of our tongues.
Most people understand that homicide, suicide, and death hurts its survivors deep down. We know this too because of our experience and losses to homicide, suicide, and death. When we clean up biohazard from residences and businesses, we cannot help feeling self-conscious about our presence in a place recently shocked.
We are cleaners. We cannot ease the pain. We can, though, help the healing process to begin by returning the scene to a biologically safe condition. Biohazards must disappear for good. Biohazard cleanup done professional, as we recommend, removes unknowns for the responsible parties.
Sometimes friends and relatives will ask us why we charge different rates for cleaning.It is the additional cleaning that causes us to raise prices. Besides cleaning, more labor may be involved with special requests, sealing, and chasing effluents. Expect questions like these:
Who is the victim?
Who is the responsible party?
Where is the wound?
What type of weapon was used?
Where did this homicide, suicide, and death occur?
How long was the deceased down?
Biohazards
Airborne
Airborne biohazards cause illness as well as death to humans. They enter the respiratory track through the eyes, nose, and throat. They may remain dormant or become active in a short time.
The more well known of the airborne biohazards are anthrax and tuberculosis.
Bloodborne biohazards cause illness and death in humans. They enter the body through the eyes, throat, anus, and sexual orifices. A small number of micro-organisms, viruses and bacteria entering the body's blood stream soon begin to populate. Their presence to the body's immune system causes white blood cells to attack the invading organisms, which in one sense amounts to an internal biohazard cleanup by our body's own defenses.
A healthy body will fight off attacking bloodborne micro-organisms.