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Health care workers (who come in contact with infected blood )---Hep B, Hep C, HIV
( Doctors, Nurses, Phlebotomists,etc.).


Health care workers, like dentists (who come in contact with infected orotracheal secretions)----Herpetic whitlow.


Pathologists (infected brain specimens during autopsies)----Prion diseses(CJD).




Edited by just do it on 10/06/06 - 07:10 PM

  #2

PNEUMOCONIOSIS

Plumber, Ship-building worker, or who works in mining, milling, foundry wok, application of asbestos products to pipes, brake linings, insulation and boilers.----- Asbestosis


Mining, Rock quarrying, tunneling, glass &pottery making, sand-blasting and abrasive-working.---------Silicosis.


Coal mining----CWP.

  #3

SKIN

Wool-sorter's or Hide-porter's --------Anthrax.


People who are exposed to sun, either due to their occupation/ hobby---Actinic keratosis, Melanoma, SquamousCellCancer of skin.



  #4

Pig farmers-----Neurocysticercosis

Sheep Breeders------Echinococcus granulosus

  #5

Spelunkers----Histoplasmosis







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