Michigan is not most at risk for hepatitis A, but the state has begun warning residents about the widespread outbreak it and surrounding states are experiencing.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS)
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Letter From the Editor: I’m a little worried, are you?
Opinion
Foodborne illnesses are not generally considered to be “highly contagious.” There are exceptions of course. Children in close contact can give each other E. coli infections.
But generally speaking, if you don’t eat the
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Denver resident is latest death in hepatitis A outbreak
Two months after Denver declared its outbreak of hepatitis A, the viral disease has taken the life of a resident of the Mile High City.
“Deaths from hepatitis A are rare, but they can occur,
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Dates from Iran linked to Hepatitis A outbreak for second time in 2 years
Officials are investigating an outbreak of Hepatitis A in Sweden related to dates from Iran that are suspected to be the source of the infections.
Since the end of February, nine cases of the viral
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Austrian Hepatitis A cases match strain in Swedish outbreak
Austria has become part of a multi-country Hepatitis A outbreak with 31 confirmed cases linked to frozen strawberries imported from Poland.
The outbreak of hepatitis A virus (HAV) is connected to the one recently declared
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Hepatitis A database has potential to improve outbreak detection
A Hepatitis A database has shown promise, and with improvements could be used at earlier stages of international outbreaks, according to researchers.
The team assessed usefulness of the dataset for geographical annotation, backtracing and outbreak
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WV gets help on the ground with Hepatitis A outbreak from CDC experts
Responding to a request from Gov. Jim Justice, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has moved a 6-person team into West Virginia to help knock down an outbreak of Hepatitis A.
Gov. Justice
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CDC issues advisory on Hep A outbreaks
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Alert Network Advisory this week regarding Hepatitis A infections amidst a multi-state outbreak. The CDC is monitoring vaccine supplies, which some state and local health
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Wyoming public health officials investigate Hep A outbreak
The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) and the Casper-Natrona County Health Department continue to investigate a growing Natrona County Hepatitis A outbreak that began in October 2017.
Since then, 14 cases have been confirmed among
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Hepatitis A cases nearing 100 in WV; 3 out of 4 hospitalized
West Virginia has had 98 confirmed cases of Hepatitis A so far this year, with some of them caused by the same strain of the liver virus that has sickened people across the country.
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Food source suspected in Hep A outbreak in six EU countries
More than 40 cases of Hepatitis A have been reported in six European Union countries, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC).
The 42 cases across Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands,
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