Biohazard Health Extreme Cleanup
Biohazards are arguably the most dangerous threat to homeowners and their pets. It is no secret that many hoarding cleaning cases are plagued with biohazards. Biohazards, or pathogens, are any harmful agents that pose an immediate risk to human beings, animals, or the environment. Biohazards usually rear themselves in the form of toxic or infectious diseases or agents.
Health biohazard cleanup is needed when these agents are presented in two major forms within a hoarded home: Airborne and blood borne.
- Airborne biohazards are any pathogens (bacterial, viral, or allergenic) that can be absorbed through the lungs or enter the body in other ways like the ears, nose, throat, and eyes.
- Blood borne biohazards are commonly more deadly and quicker to infect a person or pet. Able to enter the blood stream in many similar ways as an airborne pathogen, blood borne biohazards can also infect someone through open cuts, sores, and any major orifice.
Health biohazards occur when homes become riddled with gross filth. Feces, urine, vomit, blood, and other bodily fluids carry these pathogens with them. Rotted food can also attract insects, rodents, and spawn bacterial colonies which can carry contagious threats. In order to prevent the spread of infectious disease, hoarded homes must be deep cleaned and sanitized in order to protect the health and safety of the home’s occupants and their pets.
Animal hoarding cases are commonly linked to health biohazard cleanup scenarios. In homes where animals have literally taken over to the point that their owner or owners no longer have control, health biohazard dangers are ever-present. Pet feces, vomit, and other fluids are harmful enough in and of themselves. However, pet urine (especially cat urine) contains concentrated amounts of ammonia. Along with the dangers presented by the pathogens carried in the urine, ammonia can cause serious brain defects if someone were to be overexposed to it.
Those in need of simple clutter cleanup also uncover the need for health biohazard cleanup. Due to the elevated risk to a person or their pets’ health, highly-trained, certified professionals must be contacted in order to ensure the safety of anyone exposed to these infectious threats.
Crime scene cleanup scenarios and unattended death scenes are also prone to infectious biohazards. Blood, bodily fluids, and other types of bodily matter should not be handled by anyone other than a trained professional. Certified technicians must conform to all EPA and OSHA regulations regarding health biohazard cleanup, including the use of certified cleaning agents. Because it is impossible to know what types of diseases a person who passed away was carrying, infections such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, HIV, AIDS, and other deadly diseases may spread.