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Deadliest outbreak of hepatitis A in decades kills 14 in San Diego
guardian.com ^ | 8/28/17 | staff & CDC

Posted on 08/28/2017 7:48:39 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt

Fourteen people have died from an outbreak of hepatitis A in San Diego, and experts believe it to be the deadliest outbreak of the disease in the US in decades, the Guardian has learned.

In large part, the victims were homeless people who have had to contend with a lack of 24-hour public restrooms, even though hand-washing is one of the best defenses against infection.

The number of cases has exceeded other large outbreaks, said a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) spokesperson,
and is “likely the most deaths in an outbreak in the US in the past 20 years”. ( more information at source website due to copywrite restrictions) )

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: california; hepatitis; hepatitisa
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Yet in San Diego, 264 people have been hospitalized, roughly 70% of them homeless, in an outbreak that began last November, according to local health officials.
Nine of the 14 deaths have occurred since mid-July.

The virus, which impairs liver function, causing jaundice, fatigue, joint pain and, in the most serious cases, death,
is largely spread through food or water contaminated by fecal matter.
Hepatitis A has a long incubation period – up to 28 days – which means people can spread the disease before they’re aware they’re infected.

1 posted on 08/28/2017 7:48:39 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Infectious Disease Ping - hepatitis A , (San Diego, California)

Viral Disease - could be contained by access and routine hand washing.
14 fatalities, so far.

2 posted on 08/28/2017 7:51:54 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (The Fourth Estate has become Fifth column !)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Seems like homelessness is way up from what I can see.


3 posted on 08/28/2017 7:55:17 PM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Viral Disease - could be contained by access and routine hand washing.

Plenty of drinking fountains around to wash their hands in. They just must not be motivated. Maybe the city could offer cash incentives...
4 posted on 08/28/2017 8:00:11 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
have had to contend with a lack of 24-hour public restrooms, even though hand-washing is one of the best defenses

I got news for the Guardian....

5 posted on 08/28/2017 8:02:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
because there is no shame nowadays in anything, people can just bum around at will without proper facilities, nor means of support...

wash hands?...how quaint...just another old timey American custom that needs to be done away with...

6 posted on 08/28/2017 8:02:53 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

Don’t lean or rest against freeway columns or abutments either, it’s what the enclosure challenged back up and sit against to go poo.


7 posted on 08/28/2017 8:09:18 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Garth Tater

Wouldn’t be sanity for us if people wash fecal matter off their hands in the drinking fountains. They would have to touch the drinking fountains to activate water flow and so the lever they touch is contaminated. Then the bowl of the fountain is dirty because they didn’t use hot water and soap. Hot water and soap is needed to kill viruses etc - rinsing off in cool water wouldn’t help.


8 posted on 08/28/2017 8:11:38 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: WatchungEagle

you’re new here, aren’t you?


9 posted on 08/28/2017 8:21:39 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: ransomnote

Strap a pack of sanitary handi-wipes to the side of the drinking fountain and it’d all be good. The hard part is getting them to use them.


10 posted on 08/28/2017 8:23:37 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
The mediots left out a critical factor re Hep A, drug abuse. Hepatitis A Virus among Drug Users and the Role of Vaccination: A .. . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276338/ by F Lugoboni - ‎2011 - ‎Cited by 6 - ‎Related articles Jan 12, 2012 - Addiction and diffusion of viral hepatitis are two different phenomena but have long been closely correlated. Addiction is a global phenomenon, ...
11 posted on 08/28/2017 8:25:48 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

“Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.”

I am fairly conscientious about handwashing and general hygiene, but managed to get Hep A in the bush in Uganda back in 1981. I’d guess Hep A carriers were as abundant around me then as they seem to be in San Diego now.

I was a ‘sick puppy’ for a while there. When I finally made it out to the hospital in Nairobi and lab tests, the doctor told me, “I see about three cases of hepatitis each day. Other than in a textbook, yours are the worst lab results I’ve ever seen.”

Hep B is supposed to be worse.


12 posted on 08/28/2017 8:29:48 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Be careful on Shady lane ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdMk3L00GEg&index=21&list=RDVorr7ni7sNM


13 posted on 08/28/2017 8:40:38 PM PDT by soycd
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It’s amazing how many people don’t wash hands! Even people who keep clean homes can be very poor hand washers. They might have a seippy noae and use their have to catch the drip, then dail to wash their hands. People fail to wash hands after using a Kleenex during a cold. Men fail to wash hands after peeing while women will wash only the palms of their hands.

Who washes hands after handling money? I washed a woman stocking shelves at a grocery store who coughed, covered her mouth with her hands, then wiped the boogered up hand on her pants, grabbed more boxes of pasta and put them on the shelves.

I see women all the time change dirty diapers, ang fail to wash their hands. I’ve had family attempt to change poopie diapers on my couch, and after smearing the poopie butt with the edge of the diaper, set the still stinky butt on the couch as they reach for another diaper. And not wash hands after. I don’t allow people to change diapers in my house except doe in the bathroom where it belongs.

These filthy habits are the sole fault of whomever the primary caretakers of the child. Cleanliness is a habit brought on by good training from infancy. Children live what they learn.

In my city, the majority of the homeless are able bodies men. A few are elderly, a few obviously mentally challenged, a few are obviously injured and disabled. I see a lot of homeless people and that majority of men are drugged on one substance or another. Most of the time it’s crack, meth, or alcohol with a few other substances in between.

Cleanliness? Not even in the summertime when the river is warm, and toiletries are free at the food banks.


14 posted on 08/28/2017 8:43:32 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: BwanaNdege

You sound blessed to have come through such a bad case.


15 posted on 08/28/2017 8:45:30 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: WatchungEagle

Well, that’s because there’s a Republican in the WH again. For some reason, the homeless disappear when there is a Rat in the WH. Apparently, a bunch of Dems put the homeless up in fancy hotels - on their own dime, of course, when one of their own occupies the WH.


16 posted on 08/28/2017 8:47:58 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: WatchungEagle

“Seems like homelessness is way up from what I can see.”


Facts,please.

Data,please.

That type of statement needs documentation.

.


17 posted on 08/28/2017 8:50:07 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Grampa Dave

Hepatitis A is spread mainly by fecal route. Hep B is blood borne and can be spread through sharing needles.


18 posted on 08/28/2017 8:56:40 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: PrairieLady2

I saw a woman change a diaper on the table in a restaurant.


19 posted on 08/28/2017 8:59:38 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: WatchungEagle

An increase in homelessness always accompanies the presence of an ‘(R)’ after the President’s name. Or at least that’s how it gets reported.


20 posted on 08/28/2017 9:06:29 PM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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