Hepatitis B -- United States
Kentucky and 2 other Appalachian states have seen a huge surge in the potentially serious liver infection hepatitis B, driven by the relentless scourge of injection drug abuse in the region, a new study says. The research, released by the CDC on Thu, 28 Jan 2016, found that acute hepatitis B rose 114 percent in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia from 2009-2013, even as incidence remained stable nationally. Injection drugs were a factor in 3/4 of cases in those states from 2010
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/1QzJznC
No comments:
Post a Comment