NEBRASKA: Lancaster County keeps eye on hepatitis spike - (KPTM FOX 42)
April 16, 2008 – 10:47 pmLINCOLN, Neb. — Lancaster County health officials are, according to this story, keeping their collective eye on a local bump in unconnected cases of hepatitis A.
Tim Timmons of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department says the four county cases so far this year equal the total for all of last year.
Officials say eight cases were found in the county in the past 15 months. Of the eight, seven were adults. One of the eight died.
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