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11,200 [6] Hepatitis A is an infectious disease of the liver caused by Hepatovirus A (HAV); [7] it is a type of viral hepatitis. [8] Many cases have few or no symptoms, especially in the young. [1] The time between infection and symptoms, in those who develop them, is two–six weeks. [2] When symptoms occur, they typically last eight weeks and ...
The 2019 United States Hepatitis A outbreak was an occurrence of several declared outbreaks of the disease, Hepatitis A, in locations in the United States including substantial instances in the states of Kentucky, [2] Mississippi, Florida, and the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [3] as well as an isolated food-related occurrence in New Jersey. [4]
CENTER TWP. ― A Hepatitis A outbreak traced to a Beaver County restaurant 20 years ago may have led to many of the national food safety guidelines implemented in the last several years. In 2003 ...
2003. A hepatitis A outbreak was one of the most widespread hepatitis A outbreak in the United States, afflicting at least 640 people, killing four people in north-eastern Ohio and south-western Pennsylvania in late 2003. The outbreak was blamed on tainted green onions at a Chi-Chi's restaurant in Monaca, Pennsylvania.
The latest outbreak is similar to one the state faced in 2018 that was responsible for more than 560 cases and at least nine deaths. Massachusetts warns of Hepatitis A outbreak among homeless ...
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating an outbreak of the highly contagious liver disease hepatitis A among its homeless population. Health officials said five cases ...
Hepatitis A is the most common vaccine-preventable virus acquired during travel, [15] so people traveling to places where the virus is common like the Indian subcontinent, Africa, Central America, South America, Asia, and Eastern Europe should be vaccinated.
An ongoing outbreak of hepatitis A — a very contagious liver infection caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV) — has now been linked to frozen strawberries and other frozen berry blends for ...