Diseases A-Z

Hepatitis A

• More info/links
• Reporting
• Statistics

More info/links

• Our fact sheet answers some common questions about Hepatitis A.
• The CDC "Pink Book" provides information on Hepatitis A.
• Hepatitis Foundation International
• Prospective travelers may be at risk for Hepatitis A. Counsult the traveler's health links for more information.

• Vaccines to prevent Hepatitis A and B (PDF) (43K)
• CDC Vaccine Information Statements (english only)
• CDC Vaccine Information Statements in other languages from the Immunization Action Coalition
• Information on Vacccines
• 2008 Childhood immunization schedule
• 2008 Adult immunization schedule

Disease reporting

Health care providers and clinical laboratories are required by law to report cases and suspect cases of hepatitis A to local health departments within one working day of identification.
Cases are subject to restriction on school and day-care attendance, food handling, and patient care while in the communicable stage of the disease, or for the duration of any diarrhea and/or vomiting. If sufficient measures have been taken to prevent transmission, or the disease is no longer communicable, worksite, child-care and school restrictions can be removed by the local public health authority; school restrictions can be removed by a school nurse or health care provider; and health-care facility restrictions can be removed by the facility's infection control committee.

Disease reporting form for health-care practitioners (.pdf)

Go to our disease reporting page for information on how to report and for telephone numbers of local health departments.

For county health departments:

Investigative guidelines (.pdf)

Case report form  (.pdf)

How to order Immune Globulin for prophylaxis of contacts to hepatitis A or measles cases
Collection of serum for hepatitis A viral sequencing (.pdf)

Hepatitis A statistics from the 2006 Oregon Communicable Disease Summary (.pdf)