A COVIVS vaccination center in Lyon Gerland in 2021
L‘Regional health agency alert on “resurgence“Hepatitis A in the Lyon agglomeration in recent weeks.
Since the beginning of June, many cases of hepatitis A virus infection have been identified in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, mainly within the Metropolis of Lyon. According to the Regional Health Agency (ARS), just in the Lyon agglomeration, around forty cases was found in just two months.
A “resurgence“, Alert the ARS in a statement this Wednesday, August 6, but which”is part of a broader context of increasing cases at European level“. It recalls that this transmission is mainly carried out by pro-faster, in particular through the consumption of water or soiled foods or by direct contact with contaminated objects or hands.
And to add that simple gestures make it possible to reduce contamination: wash your hands regularly, ensure food cleanliness and avoid consumption of raw or little seafood. Finally, vaccination “constitutes an effective means of prevention, in particular for people having to go to areas where the virus circulates in an endemic way (Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Central Asia, Oceania)“She says.
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