Thursday, January 23, 2020, 1:11 PM
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SCHOONHOVEN –
In Schoonhoven, children are again infected with hepatitis A, which can cause jaundice. One child is in a playgroup, the other in a nursery location, the GGD Hollands Midden announced on Thursday. A student also appears to be infected at a secondary school in Gouda.
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Earlier this week, several children became infected with the disease at De Vlieger primary school in Schoonhoven. Later it turned out that two students were also infected at Schoonhovens College. According to the GGD, with the new infection ‘in all cases a relationship can be established with the first hepatitis A infection’.
GGD Hollands Midden has taken immediate measures and has given preventive vaccination to the leaders of the playgroup and given hygiene advice. The employees and children of the other toddler care that are at risk of infection will be vaccinated on Friday.
Everyone informed
All parents of the toddlers have been informed by the GGD. Only people who are potentially at risk of infection will be vaccinated. If parents have not received a letter, their children are not at risk of infection.
Parents of high school students have also been informed. They are not vaccinated because no further infection has been detected in the immediate vicinity of the children.
Hepatitis A is an inflammation of the liver that is caused by the hepatitis A virus. A possible symptom of hepatitis A is jaundice. People with this symptom start to look yellow because their liver is no longer functioning properly. Both children and adults are at risk of hepatitis A infection, but the symptoms are often more severe in adults. Hepatitis A has a long incubation period. People who are infected with hepatitis A are often weeks before the first symptoms become visible. The symptoms of hepatitis A in children are fatigue, mild fever, sometimes upper abdominal pain and nausea. In adults it may also be that the skin and the whites of the eyes turn yellow. There is no medicine for hepatitis A and it can be dangerous for people in poor health. The disease often goes away after a few weeks. People can receive a vaccination test to prevent infection. Children are not vaccinated against hepatitis A as standard. Source: RIVM.
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