Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Outbreak of hepatitis A virus infection in four Nordic countries

Between 1 October 2012 and 8 April 2013, 16 confirmed cases of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infections were reported in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
As none of the cases have a travel history outside the EU within their period of potential exposure, this represents a multicountry outbreak, with exposure currently taking place in the EU. The descriptive epidemiology indicates foodborne transmission originating from a persistent common source with possible multiple vehicles of infection in the EU that are contaminated with viruses sharing an identical sequence.

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Source: ECDC


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