If ever a nursing student had hepatitis B, can he or she still continue to take up nursing and work abroad???

Answer 1

It depends exactly what type of job it is because that person wont be able to work as a scrub-nurse in operation-theatre if the blood test shows the person can still transmit the virus.

If a person had Hep-B in the past then there are two possibilities:
-The person might have recovered fully and is now immune to the disease.
-The person still has chronic infection and may or may not be infective (can transmit the disease to others).

This we can ascertain by doing blood-test (serology).

So it all depends on the serology (done by blood-test to know the antibody status), type of job and hospital policy.

Two important serology tests which denote that the person is potentially infective are HBeAg(Hepatitis B e antigen) and viral load (no of virus particles per ml of blood).

There is clear evidence that doing non-invasive procedures doesn't pose any risk of transmission.

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