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Risk Of Nosocomial Transmission Justifies Immunization Of Health Care Workers.(Brief Article)
2001 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Hospital workers in the tropics should be vaccinated against chickenpox for their own safety and to avoid transmitting it to patients, say researchers working in India.
In tropical regions, the population is susceptible to the disease and is not routinely vaccinated because of cost concerns. This puts health care workers and their patients at high risk for infection.
V.S. Richard and colleagues working at Christian Medical College and Hospital in India collected data on hospital admissions for chickenpox over a five-year period. They found that of the 96 admissions, 76% were for health care workers.
Health care workers were affected in each of the five years, whereas among the general population, chickenpox outbreaks occurred only every four to five years, reported Richard et al. ("Should health care workers in the tropics be immunized against varicella?" Journal of Hospital Infection, March 2001;47(3):243-245).
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Source: HighBeam Research, Risk Of Nosocomial Transmission Justifies Immunization Of Health Care...