US Hepatitis A Outbreak – 28,985 ill, 17,580 hospitalized with 296 deaths By Bruce Clark on December 12, 2019 Posted in Foodborne Illness Outbreaks Since March 2017, CDC’s Division of Viral Hepatitis (DVH) has been assisting multiple state and local health departments with hepatitis A outbreaks, spread through person-to-person contact. This is vaccine preventable