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杰弗逊地区医疗中心正在迅速执行一项新的联邦政府计划,该计划旨在保护暴露在血源性疾病致病因子中的工作人员免受感染。据劳动安全与健康管理委员会(OSHA)估计,该计划每年可以防止200例因工作接触或继发感染而引起的卫生保健人员的死亡。OSHA 指出,每年因工作接触有6000—7400名卫生人员被乙肝病毒感染,其中有1500—1900人患急性肝炎,300—400人因此住院。拥有30万会员的国际服务业劳工协会(SEIU)指出,乙肝病毒每年侵袭12000—
The Jefferson Regional Medical Center is rapidly implementing a new federal government program designed to protect workers exposed to the causes of blood-borne diseases from infection. According to OSHA estimates, the program can prevent the death of 200 health-care workers every year due to work exposure or secondary infection. OSHA pointed out that 6000 to 7400 health workers are infected with hepatitis B virus each year due to work exposure, of which 1500 to 1900 suffer from acute hepatitis and 300 to 400 people are hospitalized. The International Service Workers Association (SEIU), which has 300,000 members, points out that hepatitis B virus affects 12,000 every year—