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.
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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 !)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Seems like homelessness is way up from what I can see.
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 defensesI 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.)
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!)
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)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
13 posted on
08/28/2017 8:40:38 PM PDT by
soycd
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
By allowing homeless in great numbers, third world diseases WILL ARRIVE. These people live worse than people in third world countries with basic sewers. Because the homeless have NO PLUMBING OR SEWER SYSTEM. Why do we allow this?
27 posted on
08/28/2017 9:45:04 PM PDT by
Yaelle
(We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
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.
Somehow, I doubt that the presence of 24-hour public restrooms would encourage the homeless to wash their hands - many or most of the truly homeless have mental issues and personal hygiene isn't at the top of their priority list.
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Any connection to the Mexicans pumping raw sewage into the ocean towards the US from Tijuana?
31 posted on
08/29/2017 6:36:45 AM PDT by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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