PRO/EDR> Hepatitis A - USA (57): (PA,WV)

Hepatitis A -- United States
Number of cases 1859
Demographics
Age range 12-86
Median age 37
Male 1119 (60.2%)
Hospitalizations 960 (51.6%)
Deaths 5
Risk factors
Co-infection with hepatitis C (information available for 1452 cases) 852 (58.7%)
Co-infection with hepatitis B (information available for 1452 cases) 158 (10.4%)
Reports illicit drug use (information available for 1589 cases) 1178 (74.1%)
Homeless 202 (10.9%)
--
communicated by:
ProMED-mail

[HealthMap/ProMED-mail map of West

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6154486&promed&0