Influenza

Details

• Personal Author:
  Daroowalla, Feroza
• Description:
  The influenza virus continues to infect humans and to cause epidemics because the virus strains have the ability to mutate resulting in frequent changes in the antigenic profile (called antigenic drift). Less often, a novel virus subtype, to which humans are not immune, appears due to antigenic shift and can result in worldwide pandemics. The influenza virus is spread through infected aerosol or secretions generated during sneezing, coughing or talking. Incubation time ranges from 18-36 hours and even persons with mild symptoms or sub-clinical infection may transmit virus. Health care workers (HCW) who have close and prolonged exposure to infected secretions and droplets released during talking, coughing or sneezing by infected persons are at highest risk for becoming infected. HCW can serve as vectors for the person-to-person transmission of influenza virus in the workplace. Furthermore, HCW who are not vaccinated are likely to transmit virus to patients who may be susceptible to severe infection and even fatal outcomes after nosocomial transmission of influenza. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Viral Diseases
• Keywords:
  Health-care-facilities Health-care-personnel Infection-control Infectious-diseases Viral-infections
• ISBN:
  9780444503350
• Publisher:
  Elsevier Science
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  73-76
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000866
• Citation:
  Occupational health for health care workers - a practical guide. Hasselhorn HM, Toomingas A, Lagerstrom M, eds. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 1999 Aug; :73-76
• Editor(s):
  Hasselhorn HM; Toomingas A; Lagerstrom M
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational health for health care workers - a practical guide
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0e4e3d32f17f9cd3ded1233b5f688d3047ea64fd29d9c8193c298994457394d92df5a46495189176f0c74c771644e01794896cbe979613a61b0dbfb2c084b68b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198233/cdc_198233_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 63.98 KB ]