Lelia Thornton

TL;DR: Infection with hepatitis C secondary to use of injected drugs is endemic in Irish prisons and better access to harm reduction strategies is needed in this environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed surveillance systems for human cases of HEV in EU/EEA countries and nominated experts assessed the epidemiology in particular examining the recent increase in the number of autochthonous cases.

TL;DR: The prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen, to hepatitis C, and to HIV in prison entrants who had previously been imprisoned was similar to that found in the recent national survey of Irish prisoners, but the prevalence was much lower in the third of prison entrantswho had never previously been in prison.

TL;DR: The Italy hepatitis A outbreak highlighted how large food-borne hepatitis A outbreaks may affect the increasingly susceptible EU/EEA general population and how, with the growing international food trade, frozen berries are a potential high-risk food.