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Nursing Health, & Environment: Strengthening the Relationship to Improve the Public's Health
TABLE D-2: Selected Work-Related Diseases, Disorders, and Conditions Associated with Various Agents, Industries, or Occupations: Infections, Malignant Neoplasms, and Hematological, Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, Neurological, and Miscellaneous Disorders
Diseases, Disorders, and Conditions
Industry or Occupation
Agent
Infections
Anthrax
Shepherds, farmers, butchers, handlers of imported hides or fibers, veterinarians, veterinarian pathologists, weavers
Bacillus anthraces
Brucellosis
Farmers, shepherds, vets, lab and slaughterhouse workers
Brucella abortus, suis
Plague
Shepherds, farmers, ranchers, hunters, field geologists
Yersinia pestis
Hepatitis A
Day-care center, orphanage, and mental retardation institution staff, medical personnel
Hepatitis A virus
Hepatitis B
Nurses and aides, anesthesiologists, orphanage and mental institution staffs, medical lab workers, general dentists, oral surgeons, physicians
Hepatitis B virus
Hepatitis C (formerly included in non-A, non-B)
Same as hepatitis A and B
Hepatitis C virus
Ornithosis
Psittacine bird breeders, pet shop and zoo workers, poultry producers, vets
Chlamydia psittaci
Rabies
Veterinarians, game wardens, lab workers, farmers, ranchers, trappers
Rabies virus
Rubella
Medical personnel
Rubella virus
Tetanus
Farmers, ranchers
Clostridium tetani
Tuberculosis Pulmonary
Physicians, medical personnel, medical lab workers
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tuberculosis Silicotuberculosis
Quarrymen, sandblasters, silica processors, miners, foundry workers, ceramic industry