A - Human Necessities – 61 – M
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
M
A61M 5/50 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2282974
FIELD OF THE INVENTION The invention relates to disposable, auto-destruct syringes which are rendered non-reusable during or after a first use. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A principal function of syringes is in conjunction with hypodermic needles for the treatment of disease by way of intravenous or intramuscular injection in humans or animals. When treating disease in this way, it is particularly important to prevent infection of the patient injected. Communicable diseases are transmitted and infection can be caused in different ways, such as, by contact with body fluids of an infected person. Infection or transmission of a communicable disease is undesirable and is especially unfortunate when due to inadvertence or ignorance, for example, the sharing or reuse of hypodermic syringes. The practise of sharing hypodermic syringes is especially prevalent among drug users. Similarly, the reuse of hypodermic syringes has become a major problem in third-world countries where syringes are used in vaccination campaigns. Often several children
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