HBV, HCV and HIV transmission to healthcare workers

<p>Here is one of Julie Gerberding’s early papers from UCSF.
[Transmission</a> of HIV to health care workers: risk and risk reduction.](<a href=“http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1630590]Transmission”>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1630590)</p>

<p>The earliest papers out of UCSF’s medicine department pooh-poohed the possibility of occupational transmission of HIV and instead sought “non-occupational risk factors” to explain seroconversion.
[Recommended</a> infection-control policies for patient…[N Engl J Med. 1986]](<a href=“Recommended infection-control policies for patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. An update - PubMed”>Recommended infection-control policies for patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. An update - PubMed)</p>