Children, teenagers and adults who may be at high risk of hepatitis A include:
- Persons traveling to outbreak areas or to areas of higher endemicity for hepatitis A. These areas include but are not limited to: Africa, Asia (except Japan), Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central and South America, Mexico, and parts of the Caribbean.
Other individuals who may be at high risk include:
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Persons living in or relocating to any community in Canada or abroad with one or more recorded hepatitis A outbreaks within the past 5 years
- Military personnel when departing to endemic or outbreak areas
- People who engage in high-risk sexual activity (such as homosexual males and persons who repeatedly contract sexually transmitted diseases)
- Users of illicit injectable drugs
- Hemophiliacs and other recipients of therapeutic blood products
- Children and staff of daycare centers as well as their parents, siblings, and other contacts
- Health-care workers, staff and residents of chronic care and mental health-care facilities
- Sewage workers
- Food handlers
- Consumers of high-risk foods (e.g., raw shellfish)
