[Vaccines and exposed occupations].
The use of safe and efficacious vaccines in occupational settings to protect workers from diseases to which they may be exposed is obvious and has been included in the employment law. Healthcare workers are particular exposed. Immunization has two purposes : protect the worker from contracting a disease, but also prevent him from disseminating the disease to weakened patients. It is important not only to take into account existing recommendations for immunization, but also to envisage their extension to teachers and staff of nurseries and primary schools. Routine vaccination against whooping cough, varicella, measles and hepatitis A is particularly warranted in these categories. Recommendations should also extend to medical students who are too often poorly protected and insufficiently warned against potential occupational exposure to pathogens and dissemination to their patients.
Gendrel
Dominique
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Service de Pédiatrie, Hôpital Cochin-Saint Vincent de Paul, 24, rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75674 Paris Cedex 14, France. dominique.gendrel@svp.ap-hop-paris.fr
D000328:Adult; D000822:Animal Husbandry; D017028:Caregivers; D002648:Child; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000517:prevention & control; D016468:Forestry; D006281:Health Occupations; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D008889:Military Personnel; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012306:Risk; D013663:Teaching; D014195:Travel; D014611:Vaccination; D014612:Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage
D014612:Vaccines