The number of Hepatitis A cases in Tasmania linked to a Northern Territory
trip has risen to five.
A 19-year-old woman is the fifth Tasmanian to be diagnosed with Hepatitis A,
in connection with a visit to the Northern Territory.
A busload of Tasmanians including several teenagers went camping in the Uluru
area at the end of April.
The woman has not needed treatment in hospital and so far just one of the
five cases has been admitted to hospital, a man who was discharged after two
days.
There are possible links to another two cases interstate, with one person in
Victoria and another in Queensland have been diagnosed with Hepatitis A.
Both had travelled in the same part of the Northern Territory.
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