Viral hepatitis among the hospital staff.

The paper compares the incidence of viral hepatitis, the frequency of occurrence of antigen HBs, as well as the clinical course of the disease in medical staff in relation to patients in the general population. The analysis has shown that the incidence rate in the Lublin district in the years 1979-1984 was 453.7 per 100,000 medical employees, and was 3.4 times higher than in the general population. No differences, however, were stated in the severity of the clinical course of the illness and in the activity of selected index enzymes indicating impaired liver functions among the medical staff and the other patients.