Pediatrics

PKIDs Report Explains The ABCs Of Hepatitis A-E

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 6th, 2002

The national nonprofit agency PKIDs (Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases) has released a report examining how viral hepatitis affects children's health and its medical, emotional, and civil rights impact on America's families.

The report, the first ever to address hepatitis A-E in children, is designed to help parents, social workers, childcare providers, teachers, and healthcare providers better understand these diseases that infect millions of Americans, many of them children.

Today, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates:

1 in 20 Americans have been infected with hepatitis B;

About 4...

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