{"id":802554,"date":"2019-12-23T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T18:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376403"},"modified":"2019-12-23T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T18:16:31","slug":"hepatitis-a-on-rise-in-colorado-with-nearly-300-known-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/hepatitis-a-on-rise-in-colorado-with-nearly-300-known-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis A on rise in Colorado with nearly 300 known cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Brf-Mumps-SDN-052519-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Almost 300 people have contracted hepatitis A in Colorado since an increase in the contagious liver disease began in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>At least two of those people have died, according to the state health department.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in hepatitis A is part of a nationwide increase that has sickened at least 28,600 people and killed over 280, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>One Colorado death was in Denver and the other in nearby Arapahoe County. Health officials in Denver are working to curb the disease through a vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Over 18,200 people in Colorado have received hepatitis A vaccinations since October 2018, according to state health officials.<\/p>\n<p>Contaminated food, beverages and objects spread the virus, the Denver Post reports.<\/p>\n<p>Homeless people, people with substance abuse problems and people who are incarcerated are at higher risk by having poor nutrition, living in crowded conditions or lacking preventive health care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/hepatitis-a-on-rise-in-colorado-with-nearly-300-known-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Almost 300 people have contracted hepatitis A in Colorado since an increase in the contagious liver disease began in 2018. At least two of those people have died, according to the state health department. The rise in hepatitis A is part of a nationwide increase that has sickened at least 28,600 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 22:17:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}