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Hepatitis A
About a third of the U.S. population has antibodies to hepatitis A, indicating previous infection by the virus. The hepatitis A virus infects up to 200,000 Americans every year and causes symptoms in about 134,000 of them. Almost 30% are children under age 15.
Hepatitis A (formerly called infectious hepatitis) is excreted in feces and transmitted by contaminated food and water. Eating shellfish taken from sewage-contaminated water is a common means of contracting hepatitis A. Infected ...
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Travel to Developing Countries: Infectious Diseases
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...upper bodyLyme disease: Bulls-eye rash, joint inflammation, and flu-like symptomsLyme disease is an acute inflammatory disease that is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. The bacterium... Read more »Herpes Simplex: Symptoms
...typeSymptomsTreatmentsEye (ocular herpetic infection). Affects only one eye at a time. Usually caused by HSV-1, but acute cases in the retina are more likely to be due to HSV-2. An estimated... Read more »Images
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