Rates* of reported cases of acute hepatitis B virus infection, by state or jurisdiction — United States, 2020

Rates* of reported cases† of acute hepatitis B virus infection, by state or jurisdiction — United States, 2020

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Source: CDC, National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.

* Rates per 100,000 population.

† Reported confirmed cases. For the case definition, see Acute Hepatitis B.

State or jurisdiction listed in order of increasing rate and then alphabetical order.

States or jurisdictions are grouped by quintiles of the distribution of the rate of reported acute hepatitis B cases per 100,000 population. The state-specific rates of reported acute hepatitis B varied throughout the country during 2020. The states in the highest rate category of 1.3 to 3.2 cases per 100,000 population include (in order of increasing rate) North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maine, and West Virginia. States with rates of acute hepatitis B higher than the national rate (0.7 cases per 100,000 population) were primarily located in the eastern and southern part of the country, particularly in or near the Appalachian region.

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