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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is known to have been transmitted during invasive procedures from 34 infected health care providers to at least 350 patients in the United States and elsewhere since the early 1970s.¹ All the health care providers who were tested had hepatitis B e antigen, a marker of a high titer of virus. Five of the 11 infected surgeons who resumed performing surgery after they had received the diagnosis subsequently transmitted HBV to additional patients. The circumstances were similar in the outbreak described by Harpaz et al. in this issue of the Journal.²

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