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The estimated risk to US surgeons
is around 5% per year. This does of course depend on the patient population. In
underdeveloped countries and in urban teaching hospitals the risk may be higher.
Nearly every other surgeon will be infected if they have not received previously
vaccination. Given the fact that the relative risk is over 2 in surgeons
compared to the general population. An unvaccinated surgeon should be recognized
as having an occupational disease if infected (at least a 50% chance of the
disease being due to infection occurring at work). The personnel attributable
proportion is calculated by using the relative risk (RR) as follows; (RR-1)/RR.
If the RR is 2 then the AP is (2-1)/2 or 50%.
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