date:Oct 18, 2018
Austria has become part of a multi-country Hepatitis A outbreak with 31 confirmed cases linked to frozen strawberries imported from Poland.
The Austrian outbreak of hepatitis A virus (HAV) is connected to the one recently declared over in Sweden, which affected 20 people. Of these, 17 were confirmed and 3 were probable. In July and August, Austria recorded 9 hepatitis A cases with the source unknown.
By sharing the sequence information identified in Sweden internationally, 14 cases in Austria