The article presents an analysis of modern foreign and domestic literature, regulatory legal acts that reflect the professional aspects new coronavirus infection COVID-19. risks COVID-19 medical non-medical workers are considered. current understanding as occupational disease is shown. features work health care system service during pandemic presented.

INTRODUCTION Despite the decline of tuberculosis in the population at large, healthcare workers (HCW) are still at risk of infection. METHODS In a narrative review the TB risk in HCW and preventive measures are described, with the focus on epidemiology and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) regulations in Germany. RESULTS There is an increased risk of infection not only in pneumology and ...

Streptococcus suis infection, an important zoonotic occupational disease in humans, is associated with meningitis, arthritis, and perceptive deafness. We report a case of severe S. suis infection in a previously healthy man who developed purpura fulminans and rhabdomyolysis, complications not previously reported with this disease.

HIV infection has attained extraordinary attention among surgeons and other health care workers as a potential source of occupational infection. Disease is usually blood-borne and transmissible, and due to the nature of surgical work, surgical community has become involved and is developing sterile surgical barriers, and improved surgical techniques and procedures.

BACKGROUND In this paper we present the study of the incidence of hepatitis B and C among health care workers in the Pomorskie voivodeship in the years 1999-2009. The aim of the study was to analyze the relationship between the certified occupational HCV and HBV infections and the age and duration of employment of infected health care workers. MATERIAL AND METHODS To analyze the epidemiologic...

conclusions although nurses are the most involved occupational group in documented ns, surgeons are the most important high risk hcw who need pep. no case of seroconversion has taken place as a result of pi. this means that the current pep may have an effective role in hiv prevention. results from a total of 369 cases, 273 (74%) were hcws, among which nurses (70%) were the most involved employe...

BACKGROUND Pigs are mixing vessels for influenza viral reassortment, but the extent of influenza transmission between swine and humans is not well understood. OBJECTIVES To assess whether occupational exposure to pigs is a risk factor for human infection with human and swine-adapted influenza viruses. METHODS UK pig industry workers were frequency-matched on age, region, sampling month, and...

OBJECTIVE Pediatric health care workers (HCWs) are at particular risk for pertussis exposure, infection, and subsequent disease transmission to susceptible patients. This cross-sectional study describes the epidemiology of occupational exposures to pertussis and identifies factors that may inform interventions to promote effective implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) guideli...

Transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in the healthcare setting continues to be a concern for the healthcare community. Although in the tenth year of the HIV epidemic in the United States we have learned a great deal about some aspects of the occupational risks associated with the provision of care for HIV-l-infected individuals, we still lack several important pieces of i...