The Washington Post via Getty Images A nurse administers the hepatitis A vaccine to a homeless person in San Diego last fall. Since the licensing of a hepatitis A vaccine in 1995, the U.S. has typically just seen cases associated with contaminated imported food. Public health experts fear that hepatitis A outbreaks are now a nationwide problem that will cost local and state health departments millions of dollars to control. Around the same time, San Diego County declared a public health crisis due to a hepatitis A outbreak that has thus far infected 589 people and killed 20 in the county. On Jan. 23, the local public health emergency was declared over as the hepatitis A case count had slowed dramatically.

Source: Huffington Post June 13, 2018 21:11 UTC