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Hepatitis A: guidance, data and analysis

The symptoms, diagnosis, management and epidemiology of hepatitis A.

Hepatitis A virus infection causes a range of illness from mild, like non specific nausea and vomiting, through to hepatitis (liver inflammation, jaundice, or icterus) and rarely liver failure.

It is normally spread by the faecal-oral route but can also be spread occasionally through blood.

Good hygiene including safe drinking water and food handling and good handwashing practice prevents infection.

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Management

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Epidemiology

UK Health Security Agency routinely publishes laboratory reports of hepatitis A infections in the Health Protection Report: latest infection reports.

For volume 7 (2013) and earlier reports, see the HPR archive.

Updates to this page

Published 4 December 2009
Last updated 1 June 2021 + show all updates
  1. Added ' Hepatitis A: outbreak information' and 'Hepatitis A: preventing infection in men who have sex with men'.

  2. Added 'Sentinel surveillance of blood borne virus testing in England 2019'.

  3. Added 2018 and 2019 reports to the epidemiology section.

  4. Added 2017 reports to the epidemiology section.

  5. Added 'Hepatitis A case questionnaire'

  6. First published.