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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance, 17(18), 2013

DOI: 10.2807/ese.18.17.20468-en

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Increase in hepatitis A in tourists from Denmark, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden returning from Egypt, November 2012 to March 2013

Journal article published in 2013 by S. Gilleberg Lassen, Emily Macdonald, Anneke Steens ORCID, Sofie Gillesberg Lassen, Kathrine Stene Johansen, Sl L. Ngui, Se E. Midgley, J. Lawrence, J. Crofts, Ngui Sl, K. Balogun, Christina Frank, Mirko Faber ORCID, Marion Koopmans, Maximilian Gertler ORCID and other authors.
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Abstract

Since November 2012, there has been an increase in reported cases of hepatitis A in tourists returning from Egypt in several European countries. As of 24 April, 80 HAV cases in travellers with symptom onset after 1 November 2012 visiting different areas in Egypt have been reported. Four cases from Norway, six cases from the Netherlands and five cases from England share an identical hepatitis A viral RNA sequence. This increase in cases suggests that vaccination recommendations for travellers to hepatitis A endemic countries should be reinforced.