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LOUISVILLE, Ky.
Kentucky is facing the country's worst hepatitis A epidemic, and the state's Department of Public Health is suddenly stripped of its infectious disease manager.
John Bennett told The Courier Journal that he had been fired on Friday. The spokesman for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Doug Hogan, confirmed in an email to the AP that Bennett was no longer at the service of health.
Bennett says that he has not had a specific reason for his dismissal and that nothing indicates that this is related to Kentucky's reaction to the outbreak.
Kentucky announced Monday that the epidemic reported for the first time in 2017 killed 52 people and left more than 4,400 people sick. Kentucky has had more deaths related to hepatitis A than any other state with similar epidemics.
Hogan says the number of cases of hepatitis A has been falling for several months.
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