Hepatitis A outbreak 'absolutely preventable,' Winnipeg doctor says as cases surge
2026-05-14 from cbc.ca
A Winnipeg doctor says she's worried governments are only offering Band-Aid solutions as hepatitis A continues to spread more than a year after Manitoba declared an outbreak.
Dr. Kiran Jhinger, an internal medicine physician at Health Sciences Centre, said seeing cases of the infectious liver disease has become commonplace even though they were a rarity at the hospital not long ago.
"It's rare in the past six months for me to come to work and not have at least one patient with acute hepatitis A," she said.
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