I had hepatitis in May of 2022:
Hepatitis A is no longer mainly a travel and food-related infection, as the majority of infections from 2016 to 2020 related to drug use or homelessness, according to the CDC.
Fully 56% of hepatitis A infected persons in the U.S. were using drugs (injected or not), 14% were homeless, and 12% were recently incarcerated in data from 33 states for the period from August 2016 through December 2020.
Co-infections with hepatitis B were seen in 5.2% of reported cases, and 30.3% were co-infected with hepatitis C, as Megan Hofmeister, MD, MS, MPH, of the CDC Division of Viral Hepatitis, and colleagues reported in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Source: Hepatitis A Demographics Shift Dramatically | MedPage Today
Mine tested as “non A/non B/non C” so it is unknown. It could have been Hep E but that is not typically included in testing in the U.S.
During the pandemic, our county public health department discontinued food service inspections and did not resume doing inspections until spring of 2022.
