Amid Statewide Hepatitis A Outbreak, Physician Shares Prevention Tips

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health has declared a Hepatitis A outbreak in the state.Allegheny County has had 28 cases since January 2018.
Hepatitis A is a viral infection. It’s one of several types of hepatitis viruses that causes inflammation of the liver.
“It’s highly contagious,” says Allegheny Health Network Med-Peds physician Dr. Jennifer Preiss.
It’s most contagious the first two weeks after getting infected, and the two weeks afte