Hepatitis B and C responsible for more than nine out of 10 prison diseases in the UK
by Staff from Outbreak News Today on (#BEJD)
UK health officials say that hepatitis B and C cases accounted for 93 percent of infectious disease reports in English prisons during 2014. 1,174 of 1,268 infectious diseases reported were either hepatitis B or C, health officials note. The number of single reports of infectious diseases made to Public Health England (PHE) has more than doubled since 2011 ["]
