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Hepatitis A tends to be a self-limited disease without serious sequelae and with a low case fatality rate¹; unlike hepatitis B and hepatitis C, hepatitis A is not a cause of chronic liver disease. On the other hand, approximately 1.4 million clinical cases of hepatitis A occur each year worldwide, and in the United States, hepatitis A is a common cause of acute hepatitis and one of the most frequently reported vaccine-preventable diseases,¹ responsible for a substantial economic burden on society.²

A seemingly welcome observation has been the recent decline in the incidence of new cases reported yearly in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Gastrointestinal Unit (Medical Services), Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

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