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Patient dies in hepatitis A outbreak traced to restaurants in Virginia

By Coral Beach on October 15, 2021

One person has died in a hepatitis A outbreak associated with three restaurants in the Roanoke, VA, area, according to state officials, and two more people have been added to the patient list.

“We don’t…
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National hepatitis A outbreak mostly over in West, but continues in East

By Dan Flynn on April 8, 2021

The national hepatitis A outbreak has not yet burned out. Since 2016, 35 states have reported 38,476 hepatitis A cases. Through April 2, 2021, 61 percent or 23,373 of the stricken have required hospitalization, and

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What Hep A has taught us that can be used against COVID-19

By Dan Flynn on October 20, 2020

ROSEMONT, IL — Roslyn Stone, who manages health incidents for many of the nation’s largest restaurants and foodservice chains as the chief operating officer for Zero Hour Health, clearly has Dr. Monique Foster, who is…
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Señor Moose restaurant in Seattle is again open after Hepatitis A scare

By News Desk on April 23, 2020

Since April 15, Public Health for Seattle and King County, WA, has learned of three people from three separate meal parties becoming ill with jaundice, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, and fatigue after consuming food …
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Michigan warns residents about hepatitis A risks, and latest cases

By News Desk on September 24, 2019

Michigan is not most at risk for hepatitis A, but the state has begun warning residents about the widespread outbreak it and surrounding states are experiencing.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS)…
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Letter From the Editor: I’m a little worried, are you?

By Dan Flynn on September 15, 2019
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Foodborne illnesses are not generally considered to be “highly contagious.” There are exceptions of course. Children in close contact can give each other E. coli infections.

But generally speaking, if you don’t eat the…
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Denver resident is latest death in hepatitis A outbreak

By News Desk on September 14, 2019

Two months after Denver declared its outbreak of hepatitis A, the viral disease has taken the life of a resident of the Mile High City.

“Deaths from hepatitis A are rare, but they can occur,…
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Dates from Iran linked to Hepatitis A outbreak for second time in 2 years

By Joe Whitworth on May 1, 2019

Officials are investigating an outbreak of Hepatitis A in Sweden related to dates from Iran that are suspected to be the source of the infections.

Since the end of February, nine cases of the viral…
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Austrian Hepatitis A cases match strain in Swedish outbreak

By Joe Whitworth on October 16, 2018

Austria has become part of a multi-country Hepatitis A outbreak with 31 confirmed cases linked to frozen strawberries imported from Poland.

The outbreak of hepatitis A virus (HAV) is connected to the one recently declared…
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Hepatitis A database has potential to improve outbreak detection

By News Desk on September 27, 2018

A Hepatitis A database has shown promise, and with improvements could be used at earlier stages of international outbreaks, according to researchers.

The team assessed usefulness of the dataset for geographical annotation, backtracing and outbreak…
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