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http://www.abc.net.au/tasmania/news/200306/s874241.htm
Friday, 6 June 2003
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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