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.
Acute infectious hepatitis is a notifiable disease in England and Wales.
Diagnosis
Guidance and management
Leaflets
Data collection
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
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Added: Hepatitis A infection and vaccination summary; Hepatitis A: enhanced laboratory surveillance of acute infection.
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Added ' Hepatitis A: outbreak information' and 'Hepatitis A: preventing infection in men who have sex with men'.
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Added 'Sentinel surveillance of blood borne virus testing in England 2019'.
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Added 2018 and 2019 reports to the epidemiology section.
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Added 2017 reports to the epidemiology section.
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Added 'Hepatitis A case questionnaire'
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