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Outbreak of Viral Hepatitis in a Municipal Hospital
Clarence G. Robinson, MD;
Jules L. Gladstone, MD;
Solomon Goodman, MD;
Bertram D. Schulman, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1968;122(4):318-321.
Abstract
In a period of nine weeks, four private duty nurses at a municipal hospital developed viral hepatitis. As a result of the deaths of the first two of these, a state of near-panic developed among the employee population. A program of inoculation of personnel was instituted during which 1,900 employees received  -globulin. A survey of 1,300 employees by means of serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase screening together with more intensive evaluation of those with abnormal levels proved useless in disclosing subclinical cases. Concepts of transmission of this disease are reviewed, including more recent studies which suggest the existence of a fecal-oral route in the spread of serum hepatitis.
Author Affiliations
Brooklyn, NY
Footnotes
Received for publication April 22, 1968; accepted June 26.
From the Coney Island Hospital (affiliated with Maimonides Medical Center), Brooklyn, NY. Doctor Goodman is now with the Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Reprint requests to the Coney Island Hospital, Ocean and Shore parkways, Brooklyn, NY 11235 (Dr. Robinson).
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