Reuters
Their finding followed an investigation into about three dozen cases of the liver infection that surfaced in 2003 and 2004 in nursing homes in Mississippi and North Carolina and an assisted living center in California.
Between 70,000 and 80,000 Americans contract hepatitis B each year, but most of them are young adults who have had unprotected sex with an infected person or shared dirty needles while injecting drugs.
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