Occupations Needing HBV Vaccination
Occupations Needing Hepatitis B Vaccination and Blood Hygiene Precautions

Millions of people at some point work with blood.  And infected blood to an open wound is 100 times more infectious than sex at transmitting hepatitis B and C!  This simple fact explains why millions in the following professions have caught hepatitis B or C at some point in their careers and all are recommended for HBV vaccinations wherever they work on Earth and all need to use strict blood hygiene precautions. 

 
Nurses & Doctors Carers  
 First Aiders
 Morticians  
 Tattooists 
 Soldiers  
 Sports people
 Cleaners 
 Police & Security
 Hairdressers   
 Sewage Workers
 Dental Assistants  
 Beautician/Botox/Wax
 Custodial Staff
 Lab Technicians
 Emergency Workers 
 Sex Workers
 Hospital Porters   
 Caretakers
 Special Needs staff
 Migrant Workers
 Child Foster Carers   
 Asylum/Prison Workers 
 Chefs (wounds) 
 Builders (wounds)
 Mechanics (wounds)
 Acupuncturists
 Prosthetics Manufactureres
 Chemists 

All these roles are recommended for vaccination 

As they have much higher than usual hepatitis b infection rates due to blood spill and the possibility of wounds at work. For instance before vaccination in the UK, 1 in 17 nurses caught hepatitis b from blood, and in the US they estimate a nurse still dies from it every day. This vaccination is mandatory overseas for almost all of the above.

Hepatitis B Occupational Disease Facts
  
  • As a blood virus Hepatitis B is extremely infectious, 3 pricks from an infected (stained with hbv blood) source and infection will result. Once established the Virus then silently over 30 years kills 10% of the infected. 
  • Hepatitis B is present in up to 1 in 10 UK sub Saharan Africans and Far East Asians and 1 in 50 UK Eastern Europeans and South East Asians. 
  • Most hepatitis b infections happen without the employee knowing.

UK Medical Studies of how many workers caught acute HBV before HBV vaccination became common. 

1 in 38 National Average                          Tedder et al 1989.
1 in 17 Asylum Workers                            Holt et al 1985.
1 in 14 Exposure Prone Health Workers        Fagan et al 1987.
1 in 19 Hospital Staff                               Vandervelde et al 1985.
1 in 31 Non Exposure Prone Health Workers Smith at al 1987.
1 in 10 Crime Scene Officers                     Morgan-Capner et al 1988.
1 in 22 Police Custody Officers                  Morgan-Capner et al 1988.

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