{"id":55044,"date":"2017-12-20T06:13:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T06:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=55044"},"modified":"2017-12-20T06:13:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T06:13:36","slug":"san-diego-county-sees-slowdown-in-hepatitis-a-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/san-diego-county-sees-slowdown-in-hepatitis-a-cases.html","title":{"rendered":"San Diego County sees slowdown in Hepatitis A cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">San Diego County sees slowdown in Hepatitis A cases<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">San Diego County is seeing a slowdown in the number of cases of Hepatitis A from an average of 84 per week this summer to only two in the first three weeks of December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The county\u2019s public health officer, Dr. Wilma Wooten, said Tuesday that the death toll of 20 also has not changed since October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">San Diego County has had 571 cases since November of 2016, the worst such US outbreak in 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Health officials have vaccinated more than 100,000 people, installed 159 hand-washing stations and cleaned streets with a bleach solution in an effort to contain the liver-damaging virus that lives in feces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The city also is opening tents to house homeless people, the most affected population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Wooten says the efforts appear to be working.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/san-diego-county-sees-slowdown-in-hepatitis-a-cases\/2017\/12\/19\/9201b0ea-e4ee-11e7-927a-e72eac1e73b6_story.html?utm_term=.eeec8d2c4fb2<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/san-diego-county-sees-slowdown-in-hepatitis-a-cases.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego County sees slowdown in Hepatitis A cases San Diego County is seeing a slowdown in the number of cases of Hepatitis A from an average of 84 per week this summer to only two in the first three weeks of December. 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