Major public health emergencies, such as COVID-19 and the re-emergence of the flu, have pushed the workplace dangers of other, highly transmissible blood-borne diseases off the front page in recent times – but they haven’t gone away.
We now have more than 230,000 people in Australia estimated to be living with Chronic Hepatitis B, for example, according to the most recent figures from the Doherty Institute. These show incidence of the disease has risen to represent 0.90 percent of the population. A big figure.
Better treatments are available to people with Hepatitis B (HBV) or other blood-borne viruses like
