Transmission (Blood-borne Viruses)

Infected Health Care Workers Should Reduce Exposure Prone Procedures

Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 24th, 1997

Policy for minimizing the risk to patients from health care workers infected with blood-borne viruses has been addressed in a report prepared by a multidisciplinary professional group for the Minister for Health for the Republic of Ireland.

In its report, titled "The Prevention of the Transmission of Blood-Borne Diseases in the Health-Care Setting," the group recommended that health care workers who are hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive or who are infected with HIV or hepatitis C virus (HCV) should not perform exposure prone procedures on patients, wrote Noel Gill of the PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, England ("Irish Working Group Recommends...

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