OCCUPATIONS |
- Contact with Infected Living Animal
|
DISEASES |
- Animal breeder
- Animal caretaker
- Animal scientist
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Lab animal worker
- Veterinarian
|
Handle infected domestic
animals (inhalation or percutaneous exposure) |
- Anthrax
- Brucellosis
- *Hendra & Nipah viral diseases
- Influenza
- Leptospirosis
- Plague
- Q fever
- Vesicular stomatitis fever
|
- Animal breeder
- Animal caretaker
- Animal scientist
- Lab animal worker
- Poultry farmer
- Poultry handler
- Veterinarian
|
Handle infected
chickens or
birds |
- Campylobacter enteritis
- Influenza
- Psittacosis
- Salmonellosis
|
- Animal breeder
- Animal caretaker
- Animal scientist
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Lab animal worker
- Veterinarian
|
Bite or
scratch by infected dog or cat |
- Brucellosis
- Capnocytophaga infection
- Cat scratch fever
- Pasteurellosis
- Plague
- Rabies
- Tularemia
|
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Game warden
- Hunter & Trapper
- Veterinarian
- Wildlife biologist
|
Bite by skunk, raccoon,
bat, fox, or other carnivore |
- Rabies
|
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Game warden
- Hunter & Trapper
- Veterinarian
- Wildlife biologist
|
Bite by rodents |
- *Monkeypox
- Plague
- Rat bite fever
|
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Game warden
- Hunter & Trapper
- Veterinarian
- Wildlife biologist
|
Handle infected rodents (inhalation or
percutaneous exposure) |
- *Arenaviral
infection
- Hantavirus infection
- *Lassa
fever
- Leptospirosis
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM)
- *Monkeypox
- *Omsk
hemorrhagic fever
- Plague
|
- Lab animal worker
- Veterinarian
|
Handle infected laboratory
rats |
- Hantavirus infection
- LCM
- Rat bite fever
|
- Lab animal worker
- Veterinarian
|
Handle infected macaque
monkeys |
- B-virus infection
|
- CDC - Brucellosis
- CDC - Protecting
Poultry Workers from Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
- CDC - Hendra viral disease
- CDC - Leptospirosis
- MMWR - Q Fever Outbreak --
Germany, 1996
- MMWR - Q Fever among
Slaughterhouse Workers -- California
- Merck Veterinary Manual - Overview
of Vesicular Stomatitis
- OSHA Information Bulletin - Contracting Occupationally
Related Psittacosis
- CCOHS - Psittacosis
- Merck Manual - Human
and Mammal Bites
- CDC - Plague
- CDC - Rabies:
General Information
- Medscape - Tularemia
-- United States, 1990-2000
- CDC - Monkeypox
- MMWR - Rat-Bite Fever -- New
Mexico, 1996
- CDC - Arenaviruses
- CDC - Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
- CCOHS - Hantavirus
- CDC - Lassa Fever
- CDC - Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
- National B Virus
Resource Center
- CDC - Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
|
OCCUPATIONS |
- Contact with Contaminated Animal
Product
|
DISEASES |
- Animal breeder
- Animal caretaker
- Animal scientist
- Butcher
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Hunter & Trapper
- Lab animal worker
- Meat packer
- Slaughterer
- Veterinarian
|
Handle infected animal
carcasses or placental tissues |
- Anthrax
- Brucellosis
- *Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever
- *Glanders
- *Hendra & Nipah viral
- Leptospirosis
- Plague
- Psittacosis
- Q fever
- *Rift valley fever
- Strept. suis infection
- Tularemia
|
- Grader & Sorter
- Freight handler
- Packer
|
Handle raw goat hair, wool
or hides from endemic area |
- Anthrax
|
- CDC - Anthrax
(Bacillus anthracis) Frequently Asked Questions
- DermIS - Anthrax
(photos)
- CDC - Infection Control for Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers
- PubMed - Streptococcus
suis: an emerging human pathogen.
- CDC - Rift Valley Fever
|
OCCUPATIONS |
|
DISEASES |
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Forester
- Groundskeeper
- Highway maintenance
- Hunter & Trapper
- Landscaper
- Logging worker
- Rail track maintenance
|
Work in tick infested area
in North America |
- Babesiosis
- Colorado tick fever
- Ehrlichiosis
- Lyme disease
- Powassan virus encephalitis
- Relapsing fever
- Rocky mountain spotted fever
- STARI
- Tick paralysis
- Tularemia
|
- Building cleaning worker
- Pest control worker
|
Work in building infested
with fleas or mites of rodents |
- Murine typhus
- Plague
- Rickettsialpox
|
- Hunter & Trapper
- Laborer
|
Work in mite infested area
of central, eastern or Southeast Asia |
- *Scrub
typhus
|
- DPDx - Babesiosis
- Medscape - Tick-Borne
Diseases, Colorado
- CDC - Learn
about Lyme Disease
- CDC - Tick-borne
Encephalitis
- Merck Manual - Relapsing fever
- CDC - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- CDC - STARI
- PubMed - Tick paralysis: 33 human cases in Washington State, 1946-1996
- Merck Manual - Murine
(Endemic) Typhus
- Merck Manual - Rickettsialpox
- Merck Manual - Scrub Typhus
|
OCCUPATIONS |
- Contact with Human or Animal Waste
|
DISEASES |
- Child care worker
- Lab animal worker
- Veterinarian
|
Care for
children or primates infected with hepatitis A |
- Hepatitis A
|
- Farmworker
- Farmer & Rancher
- Sewer worker
|
Work or swim
in contaminated water (percutaneous exposure) |
- Leptospirosis
- *Melioidosis
- *Schistosomiasis
|
- Animal handler (cattle)
- Child care worker
|
Care for children or animals
infected with cryptosporidiosis |
- Cryptosporidiosis
|
- Animal breeder
- Animal caretaker
- Animal scientist
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Lab animal worker
- Veterinarian
|
Have dog or
cat contact (fecal-oral) |
- Campylobacter enteritis
- Echinococcosis
- Hymenolepsis nana infection
- Salmonellosis
- Strongyloidiasis
- Yersinosis
|
- CDC: Hepatitis A
- CDC:
Leptospirosis
- DPDx: Schistosomiasis
- DPDx: Cryptosporidiosis
- CDC: Alveolar
Hydatid Disease (Echinococcosis)
|
OCCUPATIONS |
- Contact with Infected Patient or Blood
|
DISEASES |
- Dental worker
- Embalmer
- Healthcare worker
|
Handle contaminated needles
or surgical instruments |
- AIDS
- *Arenavirus infection
- *Crimean-Congo
hemorrhagic fever
- *Ebola
-Marburg
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- West Nile virus infection
- *Lassa
fever
|
- Healthcare worker
|
Care for sick patients
(droplet/airborne pathogens) |
- Adenovirus
- *Arenavirus infection
- Coronavirus infection
- *Crimean-Congo
hemorrhagic fever
- Diphtheria
- *Ebola
-Marburg
- Influenza
- *Lassa
fever
- Measles
- Meningococcus
- Monkeypox
- Mumps
- Mycoplasma infection
- Parvorvirus
- Pertussis
- RSV infection
- Rubella
- Strept. Group A infection
- Tuberculosis
- Varicella
|
- Healthcare worker
|
Care for sick
patients (bloodborne pathogens) |
- AIDS
- *Arenavirus infection
- *Crimean-Congo
hemorrhagic fever
- *Ebola
-Marburg
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- *Lassa
fever
- West Nile virus infection
|
- CDC: Healthcare-Associated
Infections
- CDC: Guidelines
for Infection Control in Health Care Personnel, 1998
- OSHA: Needlestick Injuries
- CDC: Needlestick
Guidelines
- CDC: Hepatitis B
- CDC: Hepatitis C
- WHO: Haemorrhagic Fevers
- CDC: Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers:
Fact Sheets
- CDC: SARS
- OSHA: Tuberculosis
- CDC: Tuberculosis
- CDC: Influenza Prevention and
Control
|
OCCUPATIONS |
- Raise Dust
Containing the Pathogen
|
DISEASES |
- Building cleaning worker
- Construction worker
- Dockworker
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Game warden
- Granary worker
- Groundskeeper
- Heating & AC worker
- Hunter & Trapper
- Pest control worker
- Repair worker
- Wildlife biologist
|
Raise dust of
excreta from rodents |
- *Arenaviral
infection
- Hantavirus infection
- *Lassa
fever
- Leptospirosis
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
- Rat bite fever
|
- Bridge painter
- Construction worker
- Demolition worker
- Farmer & Rancher
- Farmworker
- Gardener
- Heating & AC worker
- Roofer
|
Raise dust from bird roosts,
chicken coops or bat-inhabited caves in endemic area |
- Histoplasmosis
|
- Archeologist
- Demolition worker
- Farmer & Rancher
- Hunter & Trapper
- Farmworker
|
Plow, dig or excavate soil
in endemic area |
- Blastomycosis
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Histoplasmosis
- *Paracoccidioidomycosis
|
- CDC - Blastomycosis
- NIOSH - Histoplasmosis
- CDC - Histoplasmosis
- CDC - Coccidioidomycosis
|
