What is Hep B?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
4. Accidental Infection
People that work on the frontline of healthcare often expose themselves to potentially dangerous diseases. While they will often wear protective clothing when needed, that does not mean to say that they are completely safe. Accidents do happen, and it can mean the health worker becomes very sick themselves.
If a health worker was to come into contact with hepatitis B infected blood then they may well become infected themselves. One relatively common way this can happen is for the health worker to be infected by infected needles that accidentally penetrate their skin. Health workers are expected to maintain high safety standards in order to keep themselves, and others, safe.
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