Hepatitis Risk

Georgia inmates get hepatitis B in prison, but cash not available for vaccine

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 24th, 2004

Most Georgia inmates infected with hepatitis B got the virus while in prison, prompting state health officials to again call for convicts to be vaccinated.

However, state budget cuts have kept prior similar recommendations from being carried out.

Georgia had 92 inmate cases of the blood-borne virus between 1999 and 2002, according to a state prison study released in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. State officials took a closer look at 57 of the cases and found that nearly 75% of them were infected while in prison.

Yet the actual number of cases likely is much...

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