Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Disease

South Sudan: Viral hemorrhagic fever cluster

Three cases of a suspected viral hemorrhagic fever, epidemiologically linked by time and place, were reported from Yirol East county, in the Eastern Lakes State, South Sudan, according to the National Ministry of Health. All three cases ended in death.

Hepatitis A : Utah, USA

In a follow-up on the Utah hepatitis A outbreak, health officials have reported 124 cases in the current outbreak. The onset of illness ranges from May through Dec 2017. Several cases have been linked by investigation and/or viral sequencing to a national outbreak of hepatitis A involving cases in California and Arizona.

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