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Hepatitis A is a viral liver infection that is highly contagious but does not result in chronic infection.

There are between 1,700 and 2,800 cases of the highly contagious virus each year in the United States. Hepatitis A is spread from person to person.

The most common way the virus is transmitted is when someone eats something that has been contaminated with the feces of an infected person.

The rise of hepatitis A caused by imported frozen strawberries from Egypt has effected 55 people in six states the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health authorities confirmed 44 total infections in Virginia, where the outbreak first appeared, and additional infections in Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, Oregon and Wisconsin.

About half of the 44 infected Virginians have been hospitalized, according to that state's department of health. They range in age from 15 to 68.

Their symptoms began in early May through August, but health authorities did not develop the theory of a common source of infection until this month.

Though the classic symptom is jaundice a yellowing of the skin or the eyes other signs include fever, fatigue, and loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dark urine and light-colored stools.

The Virginia Department of Health also announced.  A virus associated with past outbreaks resulting from strawberries imported from Egypt.

On Friday, Virginia health authorities confirmed the link between the Egyptian fruit and local infections.