There is also a record of a free-living platyhelminth Geoplana sp., although this was possibly an accidental infection.

Laboratories: accidental infections, for example, through the handling of blood of an infected person and organ transplantation, although this is uncommon.

Most who caught the virus developed "accidental infections," sores that healed on their own.

In 1969, a laboratory worker who helped discover the Lassa fever virus at Yale died of an accidental infection.

The best strategies for preventing accidental infection of humans is to educate those living in endemic areas to only consume fully cooked meat.

Universal vaccination, the agency says, is not only easier to achieve with young children, but protects low-risk children from accidental infection by others.

"Those who favor this belief appear to be in two camps: one believes that it is an accidental infection; the other believes it was deliberately induced."

It should be distinguished from Microfilaria semiclarum (a parasite of animals which sometimes causes accidental infections in humans).

The EU has a deep understanding of the serious consequences of the kind of large-scale accidental infection that affected Benghazi.

This practice may provide an additional benefit by preventing an accidental infection from occurring during the procedure.