Control of occupational hepatitis B among healthcare workers in the Czech Republic, 1982 to 1995.

Occupational hepatitis B remains a threat to healthcare workers (HCWs) worldwide, even with availability of an effective vaccine. Despite limited resources for public health, the Czech Republic instituted a mandatory vaccination program for HCWs in 1983. Annual incidence rates of acute hepatitis B were followed prospectively through 1995.

[Diabetes and viral hepatitis B].

The author emphasizes the fact that diabetics are also in the Czech Republic a group with a high risk of infection with viral hepatitis type B (VHB), i. e. in diabetics a higher prevalence of acute VHB is found, a higher prevalence of HBsAg and anti-HBs, and in diabetics chronic sequelae acute hepatitis are more frequent.