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|Videos|April 5, 2016
Can Hepatitis Be Transmitted By Mosquitoes?
Author(s)Contagion Editorial Staff
Charitha Gowda, MD, MPH addresses concerns that hepatitis could be transmitted via mosquitoes.
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Charitha Gowda, MD, MPH, infectious diseases physician at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and post-doctoral research fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania addresses concerns that hepatitis could be transmitted via mosquitoes.
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