Can a person with hepatitis B virus work and study normally?

  On May 18, 2007, the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Health jointly issued the “Opinions on Safeguarding the Employment Rights of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Carriers”, stating that “although hepatitis B surface antigen carriers are infected by the hepatitis B virus and are also contagious, their liver functions are within the normal range, there is no obvious damage to liver tissue, they do not show clinical symptoms, and they do not pose a threat to people around them in their daily work and social activities. The hepatitis B virus is a threat to the surrounding population in daily work and social activities. Hepatitis B virus is mainly transmitted through blood, mother-to-child vertical (childbirth and perinatal) and sexual contact, but not through the respiratory and digestive tracts, and general contact does not cause the transmission of hepatitis B virus. It is required that “except for work that is easily spread by hepatitis B, which is prohibited by national laws, administrative regulations and the Ministry of Health, employers shall not refuse to recruit or dismiss hepatitis B surface antigen carriers on the grounds that they carry hepatitis B surface antigen”; “in the process of recruiting and employing workers, employers may, according to their actual needs However, except for the work prohibited by national laws, administrative regulations and the Ministry of Health, the serological index of hepatitis B virus shall not be forced to be the standard of medical examination. Medical institutions of all levels and types shall pay attention to protecting the privacy of hepatitis B surface antigen carriers in the process of conducting medical examinations of workers.” On October 3, 2007, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Health issued the General Standards for Medical Examination for Civil Servants (for Trial Implementation), Article 7, which states, “All kinds of acute and chronic hepatitis, failing. Those who are carriers of hepatitis B pathogen and have been examined to exclude hepatitis, are qualified”. Although hepatitis B is an infectious disease, it is not mainly transmitted through daily contact. After adults are infected with the hepatitis B virus, more than 90% of infected people can clear and destroy the hepatitis B virus that invades their bodies by virtue of their normal immunity, without leaving any after-effects. So there is nothing to fear about working with someone with hepatitis B. Therefore, schools should not refuse to enroll HBV carriers. Except for special occupations specified by the state, most occupations (including civil servants) should no longer set a threshold for HBV carriers, to allow them more employment opportunities and to avoid losing talents.