Epidemiology/Hepatitis A
Immigrants to Israel from Some Former USSR Areas Require Vaccination
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, June 26th, 1995
During the past five years more than half a million people from various republics of the former Soviet Union have immigrated into Israel. Because many of these republics are endemic for HAV, Yuory V. Karetnyi, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, and colleagues performed a study to determine patterns of anti-HAV prevalence in new immigrants from the former USSR, compared with that of the Israeli population ("Prevalence of Antibodies against Hepatitis A Virus among New Immigrants in Israel," Journal of...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1995-06-26)
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