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

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