1 / 5

Epidemiology and Prevention of Viral Hepatitis A to E:

Epidemiology and Prevention of Viral Hepatitis A to E:. Hepatitis Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An Overview. Viral Hepatitis - Historical Perspective. Enterically transmitted. “Infectious”. A. E. Viral hepatitis. NANB. Parenterally transmitted. B. D. C.

ayla
Download Presentation

Epidemiology and Prevention of Viral Hepatitis A to E:

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Epidemiology and Prevention of Viral Hepatitis A to E: Hepatitis Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention An Overview

  2. Viral Hepatitis - Historical Perspective Enterically transmitted “Infectious” A E Viral hepatitis NANB Parenterally transmitted B D C “Serum” F, G, ? other

  3. Viral Hepatitis - Overview Type of Hepatitis A B C D E Source of feces blood/ blood/ blood/ feces virus blood-derived blood-derived blood-derived body fluids body fluids body fluids Route of fecal-oral percutaneous percutaneous percutaneous fecal-oral transmission permucosal permucosal permucosal Chronic no yes yes yes no infection Prevention pre/post- pre/post- blood donor pre/post- ensure safe exposure exposure screening; exposure drinking immunization immunization risk behavior immunization; water modification risk behavior modification

  4. Acute Viral Hepatitis by Type, United States, 1982-1993 34% 47% 16% Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C 3% Hepatitis Non-ABC Source: CDC Sentinel Counties Study on Viral Hepatitis

  5. Estimates of Acute and Chronic DiseaseBurden for Viral Hepatitis, United States HAV HBV HCV HDV Acute infections (x 1000)/year* 125-200 140-320 35-180 6-13 Fulminant deaths/year 100 150 ? 35 Chronic 0 1-1.25 3.5 infections million million 70,000 Chronic liver disease deaths/year 0 5,000 8-10,000 1,000 * Range based on estimated annual incidence, 1984-1994.

More Related