Hepatitis B

Acute HBV Incidence in Canada: Databases Paint Conflicting Pictures

Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 26th, 1997

Incidence of hepatitis B virus infection appears to be declining throughout Canada, health officials reported after resolving "apples and oranges" types of data comparison among provinces and territories.

Hepatitis B virus infection (HBV) incidence generally remained static from 1990 to 1994 with an average of 2,868 cases annually and average infection rate of 10.3 cases per 100,000 annually.

According to the Canada Communicable Disease Report (Tepper, "Acute Hepatitis B Incidence in Canada." 23;7) cases in men occurred at a higher crude rate (12.2 per 100,000) than in women (8.8 per 100,000) during this time period, and infection rates were...

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