Maps: Hepatitis

Map: Hepatitis B

Map: Hepatitis C

This week, we continue our disease series by looking at hepatitis B and C.

Hepatitis B (map) clusters in a stretch of downtown south of Bloor stretching east from Bathurst, and across the Don into south Riverdale. In the suburbs, there is a cluster centred more or less on Warden and Steeles, between Bayview and Markham Rd.

Hepatitis C (map) has three clusters - the east downtown through south Riverdale, the Beaches and eastern East York, with Thorncliffe Park; lake shore Etobicoke generally, with an area east of Dixie Rd. north to Burnamthorpe; and the area north and west of Pearson.

Comments

[Concerned citizen]

How exacty are you getting people's private and confidential health information to make maps of hep victims?

[Lindsey]

It is obtained under an Access-to-Information legislation. If you have a disease that can be contracted by someone else.

Do you want hepatitis to spread more and more or do you want people to be aware of how widely spread it is already thus needing to take protective action?