THE REAPPEARANCE OF A CLASSICAL EPIDEMIC OF INFECTIOUS HEPATITIS IN WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS

• Main Authors: CRUSBERG, THEODORE C., BURKE, WILLIAM M., REYNOLDS, JOHN T., MORSE, LEONARD E., REILLY, JOHN, HOFFMAN, ALLEN H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1978
• Subjects: ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS; Bedford; Greenland; New Bedford
• Online Access: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/6/545

Worcester, MA, experienced an outbreak of hepatitis during 1969–1970, an expected event which had occurred previously at eight-year intervals since reporting of the disease began In 1950. Other Massachusetts communities of similar character and the nation did not experience an epidemic during that s...