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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Opioid Crisis Also Affects HAV and HBV Rates

By David C. Holzman
Coposted with Infectious Disease Special Edition

Thanks to direct-acting antivirals, hepatitis C virus (HCV) has gotten a lot of attention, but infectious disease experts are starting to hear more about hepatitis A and B viruses because cases are increasing due to the opioid crisis.

For the last 15 years, hepatitis A virus (HAV) had been associated mostly with international travel to countries where the virus is endemic, and with contaminated food, but current U.S. outbreaks of