New York Times | "What to know about the Hepatitis A outbreak in L.A. County"

The New York Times interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and Dr. Timothy Brewer, UCLA Fielding professor of epidemiology and of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about an outbreak of Hepatitis A in Los Angeles County.

"The fact that the outbreak is occurring outside of traditional populations 'underscores the need to reassess how — and where — we target prevention efforts,' said Dr. Anne Rimoin, an epidemiology professor at U.C.L.A. since 'an infection anywhere is potentially an infection everywhere.' ”

The Times also quoted UCLA Fielding’s Dr. Timothy Brewer: “If you’re practicing good hygiene in a community that has access to potable water, you really should not be seeing a lot of this,” he said. “Something is going on — but exactly what that something is, we don’t yet know.”

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