Due to more extensive knowledge of the pathogenetic properties of herpetic viruses the number of confirmed occupational Infections declined. From almost two tens of controversial cases where during consultation days of occupational medicine held in Prague (and during individual consultations) in the eighties and nineties this etiology was taken finto consideration, according to records of the Clinic of Occupational Diseases in Prague in 2000 only four cases esere confirmed as occupational. In two women and one man fit was herpes zoster and one dermatological form caused by HSV 1.

        Key words: human herpetic viruses, occupational infection