Did airlines sell potentially infected personal hygiene

items for profit???

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/28/BA64041.DTL

So far, $16,281 has been made selling objects taken from passengers at Oakland and Sacramento airports -- the only ones in Northern California to participate in the state program.

Among the oddest items confiscated and sold were at least three circular saws, hatchets, curtain rods and a little girl's baton, said Robb Deignan, spokesman for the surplus property disposal program, a division of the California Department of General Services.

Also sold: 5,364 pocketknives, 350 pounds of scissors, 594 corkscrews and 309 leatherman tools.



http://www.metrokc.gov/health/prevcont/hepbfactsheet.htm
Spread occurs through contact with virus-containing blood and body fluids, such as sharing of injection drug equipment, sexual contact (homosexual and heterosexual), during childbirth, household contact with a person who has hepatitis B, and sharing of personal hygiene items (such as nail clippers, razors, toothbrushes).

I'm sure items are cleaned first, and my understanding is that viruses have a very short lifespan outside the body. I would sure wash anything I bought from them in hot water though, just in case!