Yesterday it was reported that a food handler at the White Steamer diner in Washington, Indiana who worked last week has been diagnosed with Hepatitis A.
The Daviess County Health Department says while it
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: CDC punts on recommending food service worker vaccinations – CDC, low risk perhaps, but at times, at a very high cost
Health Protection Scotland has published annual surveillance reports for Listeria, hepatitis A and E, norovirus, Shigella and Yersinia.
Data shows a decline in Listeria, Shigella, Yersinia and norovirus cases while hepatitis A and E infections
Continue Reading Hepatitis A and E cases rise; Listeria and norovirus fall in Scotland
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
Continue Reading Señor Moose restaurant in Seattle is again open after Hepatitis A scare
Federal officials still can’t say for sure where the blackberries came from, but today they repeated their public warning about fresh berries that were sold in the fall of 2019 and linked to a multi-state
Continue Reading Blackberry warning remains in place as outbreak declared over
The Mississippi State Department of Health is this week investigating a second case of hepatitis A involving a restaurant worker.
The latest incident involves a Jones County restaurant employee who may have exposed customers at
Continue Reading Mississippi offers second free hepatitis A clinic this week due to infected restaurant workers
The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is investigating a case of hepatitis A in a Warren County restaurant employee that may have led to exposure for customers. MSDH has set up free hepatitis A
Continue Reading Vicksburg restaurant worker exposes customers to hepatitis A
Health officials in New Zealand have warned people who ate at a restaurant about possible hepatitis A exposure.
Canterbury District Health Board’s public health team are advising people who ate at Madam Woo Christchurch on
Continue Reading Diners warned about potential hepatitis A exposure, urged to seek vaccination
One dose of single-antigen hepatitis A vaccine has been shown to control outbreaks of hepatitis A and provides up to 95 percent seroprotection in healthy individuals for up to 11 years.
Please get one and
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Need an easy resolution? Get a hep A vaccination
Authorities in Spain and Portugal have uncovered what they are calling a criminal network involving contaminated clams that sickened up to 30 people.
The investigation involved the Portuguese Economic and Food Safety Authority (ASAE), Food
Continue Reading Criminal network allegedly behind tainted clams that caused food poisoning
Two more patients have been confirmed and a second retailer has been named in relation to an outbreak of hepatitis A associated with fresh blackberries.
The implicated blackberries, sold by Fresh Thyme Farmers Market grocery
Continue Reading Second retailer named in update on outbreak linked to blackberries
Editor’s note: This contributed piece is from the thesis of Jamie Ragos, the current holder of The Dave Theno Fellowship for Food Safety.
Thesis: Over the past three years, there has been an
Continue Reading Preventative care: Increasing hepatitis A vaccinations among food service workers
