Prognosis
The prognosis of HAV hepatitis is usually excellent:
- the illness is self-limiting without chronic sequelae and rarely persists for more than 3 months (recovery is usual about 10 days of illness)
- it accounts for less than 1% of cases of fulminant viral hepatitis
- the mortality in large epidemics is less than 1 per 1000
- viral carriage in faeces is transient
- there is only one subtype of the virus - patients develop antibodies and become immune to further infection
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