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Prognosis

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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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