State health officials are investigating two cases of hepatitis A in Jackson County restaurant employees.

The cases potentially led to exposure for customers, The Mississippi State...

ORONO, Maine (AP) — Patrons of a store in Orono earlier this month might have been exposed to a kind of hepatitis, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice win Nobel medicine prize “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a split decision, a panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld Tennessee's rationing of life-saving hepatitis C drugs to prisoners as...

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An eastern Indiana county has approved a one-year extension of its long-running needle exchange program, which is aimed at reducing the spread of diseases among intravenous...

SEATTLE (AP) — More than 100 people have contracted hepatitis A in the Seattle area since the beginning of January, coinciding with the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most American adults need to be checked for hepatitis C, say guidelines released Monday that urge millions more people to get screened for the liver-damaging virus that can...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The number of reported cases of hepatitis A in Maine climbed by dozens last year, public health authorities said Thursday.

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Several cases of hepatitis A were confirmed in customers who ate in the same California restaurant, health officials said.

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Health says a restaurant worker in Vicksburg has been diagnosed with hepatitis A.

A news release people who ate at The Gumbo Pot on...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that consumers might have been exposed to a form of hepatitis at a market in the central part of the...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont is reporting a statewide outbreak of hepatitis A, joining 30 other states, including New Hampshire and Massachusetts, that have seen a marked increase in the number...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge granted preliminary approval Tuesday of a proposed settlement mandating testing and treatment for hepatitis C of all inmates in South Carolina correction...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida health officials say there were nearly 3,400 hepatitis A cases in 2019.

According to statistics through Saturday, there were 3,395 cases — included 63 new...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Some patients treated by a Tennessee dentist have been advised to get tested for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — With costs falling for hepatitis C treatment, Nevada state prisons are launching a program to test all inmates for the blood-borne virus.

FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) —

The hepatitis A outbreak in northern Kentucky has been declared over by local health officials.

No new cases have been reported in Boone, Campbell, Grant and...

BRISTOL, Va. (AP) — A confirmed case of hepatitis A in a Virginia restaurant worker prompted a health division to launch a public vaccination effort for the first time this year as the state...

DENVER (AP) — Almost 300 people have contracted hepatitis A in Colorado since an increase in the contagious liver disease began in 2018.

At least two of those people have died, according to...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Yakima County has 18 confirmed cases of hepatitis A, a number authorities say will likely increase in the weeks and months ahead.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota health officials say the state has reported its first case of hepatitis A linked to blackberries sold at Fresh Thyme grocery stores in September.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Health officials in a North Carolina county are reporting 19 cases of hepatitis A, adding that there have been no deaths so far.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine plans to launch a $1.5 expansion of syringe exchanges to combat the surge in hepatitis C cases in the state.

The Maine Center for Disease Control says the state...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Health officials say a hepatitis A outbreak in Yakima County now involves 11 cases.

The Yakima Health District said Thursday that the cases involve people experiencing...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay area has been hit especially hard by hepatitis A cases this year.

The region has led the state this year with 466 new hepatitis A cases in Pasco...

SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Somerset County is offering free hepatitis A vaccinations after a deli worker at a supermarket was found to have the virus.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Health officials say a restaurant worker in northern West Virginia has contracted hepatitis A.

The Monongalia County Health Department says in a news release the...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey should mandate hepatitis B and C screening and treatment for former inmates, along with dozens of other initiatives, as the state addresses how former inmates...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Department for Public Health says more than a third of students haven't received the mandated Hepatitis A vaccination.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Health officials in North Carolina say more than a dozen people may have been exposed to hepatitis A on a recent flight.

BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating cases of salmonella and hepatitis A at the Crow Wing County Jail.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge in Nashville ruled this week that Tennessee's treatment of prisoners with hepatitis C is not grossly inadequate but warned the state to make good on its...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Health Department data reveals hepatitis C cases in the state's largest county have soared to the highest numbers in years, months after a program offering...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Health officials say an outbreak of hepatitis A cases has spread into northern New Mexico's Rio Arriba County.

The state Department of Health's announcement Friday says...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — An inmate in Boulder County Jail has tested positive for hepatitis A, two days after news of a death from a recent outbreak of the disease in Colorado.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says it has identified an acute case of hepatitis A infection in a food service worker, and that other people may have...

DENVER (AP) — Officials say the death of a Denver resident from hepatitis A is the first reported fatality linked to an outbreak in the city.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi State Department of Health is investigating a case of hepatitis A in a food service worker that could have led to possible exposure for customers.

CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) — Seven jail inmates say in a legal filing that they tested positive for hepatitis C after being given used razors to shave.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri health officials have signed a contract designed to boost the rate of people vaccinated against hepatitis A as the number of cases of the liver disease...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officials are raising concerns that a hepatitis A outbreak in Missouri could worsen if the liver disease spreads to urban areas.