MULTISTATE HEPATITIS A OUTBREAK

From March 2018 to August 2020, the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health reported an increase in the number of confirmed cases of acute hepatitis A virus. This increase in cases was primarily among injection and non-injection drug users, homeless or mobile individuals, and those who had been recently incarcerated. Viral sequencing linked cases from Kentucky and California. As of August 24, 2020 the number of cases of acute hepatitis A returned to baseline rates and the outbreak was closed.

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