Hepatitis A — United States
Due to a statewide outbreak of hepatitis A, Pueblo County [Colorado] has seen more confirmed cases of the viral liver disease through the 1st 7 months of 2017 than it had in the previous 4 years combined. According to a 5 Jul 2017 report by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, [CDPHE] the state had already seen 43 confirmed cases thus far in 2017 — a sharp increase from baseline rates that has now grown to 49 cases statewide. “There is an outbreak going on in the state of
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