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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Twenty-nine people have died in a hepatitis B outbreak in western India over the past two weeks, officials said Friday.
Malayappan Thennarasan, the top administrative official of Gujarat state's Sabarkantha district, described the disease as a "mutant, virulent form" of hepatitis B.
Health officials have launched an awareness campaign in the district, Thennarasan added.
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