Personal Injury Law

Buffalo Executive Handles Hepatitus A Scare

By Marler Clark LLP

The County Executive in Buffalo, NY has decided it will take at least another day to vaccinate all the people exposed to an employee with Hepatitis A who was working at a local Wegmans store.

Wegmans is a Rochester, NY chain of eco-friendly outlets with a grocery store/ restaurant combination.   They are much Whole Foods, which recently took over Wild Oats, and Seattle's late, great Larry's Markets.

The store involved in this Hepatitis A scare is located at 5275 Sheridan Drive in Buffalo.

If you purchased produce at this Wegmans location after January 7, 2008, and ate this produce without cooking since January 26, 2008 and have not been previously vaccinated or had Hepatitis A illness in the past, the Erie County Department of Health is recommending a Hepatitis A vaccine or immune globulin (IG).

Erie County Executive Chris Collins said vaccination clinic held Monday (2/11) on the ECC North Campus from 12:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Collins told WBEN that officials will make evaluations throught the day to see if any additional clinics will be needed.

The WBEN story can be found here.

Full post as published by Hepatitis Blog on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).