Title

Hepatitis A Epidemics From Utility Sewage In Ocoee, Florida

Abstract

The 1988-1989 hepatitis A epidemic in the Palms section of Ocm, Florida, followed sewage overflows and involved 39 cases and a fetal death. Of the 18 index cases (i.e., the first hepatitis illness in a household), each had a history of contact with sewagecontaminated stormwater and no other known contact with the infection. Illnesses varied from mild to severe; 20 people reported that diarrhea, abdominal pain, varying degrees of ascites, and other symptoms continued for 2 y after the initial illness. Health injuries up to 20 y of lost life, measured by CEA-Clinical Epidemiological Analysisw, were found. Public records of rainfall and sewage flows provide evidence of massive stormwater entry into the utility system, which periodically appears to have flushed sewage from the utility lift station into residential areas. © 1993 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

1-1-1993

Publication Title

Archives of Environmental Health

Volume

48

Issue

2

Number of Pages

120-124

Document Type

Article

Identifier

scopus

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/00039896.1993.9938405

Socpus ID

0027216107 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0027216107

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