Pinellas County Uses Every Tactic Available to Push Back Hepatitis A
(WorldNews Health)

Epidemiologists study disease trends so they are always the first to know when diseases spike. At the Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County (DOH-Pinellas), the staff noticed a worrisome increase in hepatitis A cases in early 2018. Where there had been zero cases a year before, there were seven cases reported by the end of May. By September, the monthly count was up to 14. By the end of October, the annual count for Pinellas in 2018 had risen to 60 cases, or a third of those reported in all of Florida. Similar numbers had been reported in other states so Pinellas was not alone in seeing...