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Study Finds Healthcare Employment Linked With Increased
Bloodborne Pathogen Mortality
NIOSH researchers found an association, over a 20-year period, between employment in the healthcare industry and deaths from several bloodborne pathogens and their related conditions among males but only with hepatitis C virus among females. Results of the study were published in an article co-authored by Sara E. Luckhaupt and Geoffrey M. Calvert, titled “Deaths Due to Bloodborne Infections and Their Sequelae Among Health-Care Workers,” in the November 2008 issue of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine (51:812–824).