Disease Associations

Hepatitis A: Fatal in Hepatitis C Sufferers

Published in Blood Weekly, February 16th, 1998

In the alphabet soup of hepatitis infections, researchers have found adding A to C can be a fatal mix.

People living with the liver disease hepatitis C face a dramatically higher risk of dying if they eat food infected with the related virus hepatitis A, according to a study published in the January 29, 1998, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

As a result, everyone with a chronic hepatitis C infection should be vaccinated for the hepatitis A bug, said the team of Italian doctors behind the new research.

Hepatitis A, which causes jaundice, fatigue, nausea and abdominal pain, is found in food and water contaminated by...

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