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

Rates* of reported cases† of hepatitis A 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 A.

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

State or jurisdictions are grouped by quintiles of the distribution of the rate of reported acute hepatitis A cases per 100,000 population. The state-specific rates of reported hepatitis A cases varied throughout the country. The highest rate category of 5.5 to 22.9 cases per 100,000 population included (in order of increasing rate) Georgia, Missouri, Maryland, Maine, Kansas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina. States with rates of hepatitis A lower than the national rate (5.0 cases per 100,000 population) were primarily located in the central United States and the West Coast.