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Wrong idea

Re-using of needles is not a common practice in underdeveloped countries the same way it's not common practice in the so-called developed countries.

Disposal of needles are enforced everywhere today but, if someone don't do it, it's not a matter of WHERE the wrongdoer resides, but more an exception in the general rule. Developed countries are not free from doing it, reusing needles. If someone claim that re-using of needles is a common practice among underdeveloped countries, without a clear and certain proof of it or source, I think we've a clear cut case of prejudice against peoples and nations here.

Your rules don't apply in Jagd. If a nation hasn't received medical technology--including training to use other technology, such as modern handling standards for needles--then it will practice as it sees fit. Needles were invented and used before blood-borne disease was understood; between being expensive and thus non-disposable and being sterilized by alcohol or other agents, the practice of reusing needles was accepted for reasons of inadequately-evolved medical technology extending as far as simply undeveloped methods for controlling disease. Our technology has evolved to include these handling methods; underdeveloped countries are underdeveloped because they lack access to technology, such as medical technology, including an understanding and practice of handling methods for biological hazards.

In many developing countries, both apply. Some syringes cost 3 cents per; auto-disable syringes cost twice as much, and used to cost even more. Doctors in poorer countries have routinely switched the needle tip and *reused the syringe*, which is dangerous and disease-spreading. In some cases, this is done when syringes are sufficiently affordable, because the common practice *has been* to change the needle tip, and the doctors believe that is sufficient. Until both problems are fixed, the problem persists. Both problems are economic. --John Moser (talk) 18:17, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

De-notching is not defined

Web searches provide a lot of material suggesting de-notching is possible, is not performed, or is a feature available on a particular product; however, nothing explains what de-notching means. The term is meaningless to a non-professional. --John Moser (talk) 18:08, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]