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MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Surveillance for Acute Viral Hepatitis - United States, 2006

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV Viral Hepatitis STD and TB Prevention
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This report describes the burden of acute disease attributed to infection with the hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C viruses, and describes acute disease trends in recent years. Cases of acute viral hepatitis are reported weekly by state and territorial health departments to CDC's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. The report includes the methods of collecting data, definitions for acute viral hepatitis, and analyses. The report provides incidence and rates by region, age, sex, race and ethnicity, risk factors, and clinical characteristics for hepatitis A, B, and C by type and year in the United States from 1966 to 2006.
Author
Disease
Viral Hepatitis
Topics/Subjects
Statistics/Trends
Subjects
Morbidity Rates
Mortality Rates
Perinatal Transmission
Persons with Hepatitis
Statistics
Year of Publication
2008
Series
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Format
Report
Physical Description
26 p.: b&w.; graphs, maps, refs., tables.

Last Updated Date: 

10/25/13

Publication ID: 

34298