19 Now Dead in California’s Hepatitis A Outbreak

Los Angeles Police Department officers patrol on bicycles past a homeless man on a downtown sidewalk in Los Angeles, California on June 7, 2017. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images

Nineteen people have now died in California’s hepatitis A outbreak, a week after a state of emergency was declared, according to the BBC.

Over 500 people in California have contracted the disease since November—the second-largest U.S. outbreak of hepatitis A in the last 20 years.