{"id":2792,"date":"2015-05-12T12:56:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2015-05-12T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:56:43","slug":"hepatitis-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/05\/12\/2792\/","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immunization appears to have had a dramatic impact on controlling some forms of Hepatitis in the United States over the past two decades.\u00a0 In 1990, there were 31,441 new cases of Hepatitis A and 21,102 new cases of Hepatitis B reported in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0 Two decades later, <a title=\"Health, United States: 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hus\/2014\/037.pdf)\">the number of new cases has dropped dramatically<\/a>:\u00a0 1,562 new cases of Hepatitis A were reported in 2012 along with 2,895 new cases of Hepatitis B.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, NCHS released <a title=\"Data Brief #27\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db27.pdf\">data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey<\/a>, which showed that among younger Americans between ages 6 and 29, exposure to the Hepatitis A virus (HAV) had increased steadily between 1988-94 and 2003-06, while a decline occurred among adults age 40 and over during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Prevalence of Heptatitis B (HBV) infection, meanwhile, declined steadily over the same period of time for people of all age groups (It is important to note that there is a distinction between exposure to HAV or HBV in a nationally representative sample survey like NHANES and the actual number of diagnosed cases reported to CDC).<\/p>\n<p>Deaths from viral hepatitis, meanwhile, <a title=\"CDC WONDER\" href=\"http:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\">have been inching up<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2013, 8,157 Americans died from all forms of viral hepatitis, up significantly from 4,853 deaths in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Hepatitis vaccination, visit the CDC web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/vpd-vac\/default.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/vpd-vac\/default.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immunization appears to have had a dramatic impact on controlling some forms of Hepatitis in the United States over the past two decades.\u00a0 In 1990, there were 31,441 new cases of Hepatitis A and 21,102 new cases of Hepatitis B reported in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0 Two decades later, the number of new cases has dropped dramatically:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}