Occupational infectious diseases

• definition: infection originating during work with a proven risk of transmission
• Government Regulation No. 290/1995 Coll. - list of occupational diseases - Chapter V. - communicable and parasitic diseases

1. – communicable and parasitic diseases
2. – animal-to-human transmitted diseases
3. – comunicable and parasitic diseases originated abroad

• recogition of an occupational disease can only be done by a facillity appointed to it
• the conditions of compensation are set by the Labor Code
• in the 1990s, infection accounted for 17% of all occupational diseases,, in 2012 15% of the total number reported by NzP 1042

• most are health care workers and social care institutions workers
• the spectrum is changing - thanks to vaccination, hepatitis B is declining in healthcare professionals
  • in 1995 it first came to the fore 'scabies' (psychiatry, geriatrics, social care workers…)
  • then there are 'hepatitis' and ' tbc' (prosectures and geriatrics)
• other infections occur infrequently

Out of healthcare

• trichophytia - cattle breeders
• erysipeloid - in meat processing plants
• Lyme disease and tick encephalitis - people with jobs in the wild
• ornithosis - poultry workers

Occupational infection HIV is exceptional, with an '1%' 'risk of infection when injured by a contaminated instrument.

Most frequently reported occupational infections (2012)

1. scabies
2. Lyme disease
3. viral hepatitis
4. malaria

Links

Related Articles

• The most common occupational diseases in the Czech Republic
• Occupational vasoneurosis
• Occupational asthma

Source

• Incomplete citation of web. BENEŠ, Jiří. [cit. 2010]. <http://jirben.wz.cz>.

Bibliography

• Incomplete citation of publication. HAVLÍK, Jiří, et al. Infektologie. 2. edition. Praha : Avicenum, 1990. pp. 393. 

• LOBOVSKÁ, Alena. Infekční nemoci. 1. edition. Praha : Karolinum, 2001. pp. 263. ISBN 80-246-0116-8.