CDC analyzed interim data from 33 outbreak-affected states to characterize demographic, risk factor, and clinical outcome data from 37,553 outbreak-associated hepatitis A cases reported during August 1, 2016–December 31, 2020. A report describing early outbreaks in four states during 2017 noted that most infections occurred among persons reporting injection or noninjection drug use or experiencing homelessness this finding signaled a shift in HAV infection epidemiology from point-source outbreaks associated with contaminated food to large community outbreaks associated with person-to-person transmission ( 3). Since 2016, hepatitis A outbreaks have been reported in 37 states, involving approximately 44,650 cases, 27,250 hospitalizations, and 415 deaths as of Septem( 2). Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection rates in the United States declined approximately 97% during 1995–2015 after the introduction and widespread pediatric use of hepatitis A vaccines ( 1). Hepatitis A is a vaccine-preventable disease typically acquired through fecal-oral transmission. Vogt, Mary Chan, Shannon McBee, and Melissa Scott Sievers, Jamie Sommer, Cori Tice, Justin Albertson, Susan Sullivan, Brandi Taylor, Lauren Orkis, Kirsten Waller, LaKita Johnson, Rachel Radcliffe, Allison Sierocki, Bree Barbeau, Jeffrey Eason, Kelsey Holloman, Marshall P. Kittle, Devin Raman, Zuwen Qiu-Shultz, Elizabeth R. Gandhi, Jared Bartschi, Randi Pedersen, Dawn Nims, Nicole Stone, Lauren Maxwell, Chelsea Raybern, Jennifer Khoury, Amanda Odegård, Raychel Berkheimer, Chloe Manchester, David Blythe, Kompan Ngamsnga, Lindsay Bouton, Erin Mann, Cole Burkholder, Macey Ladisky, Sam Burt, Genny Grilli, Jannifer Anderson, Theresa S.
Kupferman, Megan Gumke, Nicole Kikuchi, Ami P. Moss, Priscilla Lauro, Olivia Arizmendi, Jennifer Zipprich, Rachel H. Augustine, Nathan Crawford, D’Angela Green, Yury Khudyakov, Sumathi Ramachandran, Karina Rapposelli, Karena Sapsis, Frank Whitlatch, Melissa A.
0 kommentar(er)
