03-04-2018 20:36 via deseretnews.com

2 die from hepatitis A, marking first deaths in Utah outbreak

SALT LAKE CITY — Two Utahns have died from hepatitis A, marking the first deaths amid the state's hepatitis A outbreak, health officials said Tuesday.Both victims were Salt Lake County residents, the county's health department said.The first victim died in January, "but due to other health conditions affecting the individual, officials were waiting on confirmatory tests to declare an official cause of death," Salt Lake County Health Department spokesman Nicholas Rupp said in a release. The
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