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Hepatitis A is the most common type of hepatitis

Posted on November 20, 2009
Washing your hands is one of the best ways to protect against this serious liver disease Are you traveling to another country, such as Mexico, Africa, Central or South America, Asia (except Japan) or Eastern Europe? Do you have children in a daycare center, work directly with children or help ill adults? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider receiving the hepatitis A vaccine...

Trinity Hospital pays Rock Island County $80,000 for Hepatitis A Outbreak

Posted on October 16, 2009
According to the Quad-City Times, Trinity Regional Health System has paid $80,000 to Rock Island County to help reimburse unanticipated expenses related to this past summer's hepatitis A outbreak. Trinity Medical Center treated some of at least 32 patients who came down with the liver disease in July and August...

Iowa Reports On Spike In Hepatitis A Cases Experienced Last Year

Posted on September 22, 2009
Iowa experienced a 294 percent increase in Hepatitis A cases over the previous three-year period, the state Department of Public Health reports. According to the annual Iowa Surveillance of Notifiable and Other Diseases report, the Cornhusker State went from a low of 13 Hepatitis A cases statewide in 2006 to 109 cases in 2008...

Milan McDonald's Stays On the Menu At Rock Island Courthouse

Posted on September 07, 2009
Quad Cities residents are not going to soon forget the Hepatitis A outbreak at the Milan McDonald's. An Alpha, IL couple, Nichole and John Shannon, became the latest to sue McDonald's and Milan, IL franchise owner Kevin Murphy in Rock Island County Circuit Court late last week...

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Cluster of Hepatitis A Cases Linked To Maine's Remote Swan's Island Claims At Least One Life

Posted on September 01, 2009
Swan's Island is a 30-minute ride on the Captain Henry Lee, a 17-car ferry out of Bass Harbor, Maine. When you arrive after Labor Day, there are only about 350 people on the 7,000 acre island. Now one has died and at least five others are ill --all from Hepatitis A...

Free Hepatitis A Vaccines Offers To Imperial Beach Users

Posted on August 24, 2009
Outside of the Milan, IL McDonald's, the one place where you really should not be unless you have a Hepatitis A vaccine is Imperial Beach, CA. That's because northbound ocean currents funnel the polluted water from the Tijuana River into the Imperial Beach surf...

"It's Possible This Outbreak Is Not Over"--30 Now Confirmed With Hepatitis A

Posted on August 12, 2009
 Another lawsuit on behalf of a customer sickened in the Milan McDonald's outbreak was filed today in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Rock Island County. The lawsuit was filed against McDonald's Inc., and Kevin Murphy, the owner of the McDonald's restaurant at 400 West First Street in Milan, IL, by Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm, and Craig Mielke of the Illinois firm of Foote, Meyers, Mielke & Flowers LLC...

Milan, IL Hepatitis A Outbreak Broke One Month Ago Today At The McDonald's That Never Really Cleaned Up Its Act

Posted on August 10, 2009
One month ago today –before two of its employees exposed up to 10,000 people and infected at least 26 with Hepatitis A – the McDonald's in Milan, IL would not have made the list for a book of business success stories like Jim Collins' 'From Good To Great...

Another Hepatitis Lawsuit Filed Against Illinois McDonald's - Third Legal Action in Outbreak Tied to Sick Food Worker

Posted on August 07, 2009
Another lawsuit on behalf of a customer sickened in the Milan McDonald's outbreak was filed today in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Rock Island County. The lawsuit was filed against McDonald's Inc., and Kevin Murphy, the owner of the McDonald's restaurant at 400 West First Street in Milan, IL, by Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm, and Craig Mielke of the Illinois firm of Foote, Meyers, Mielke & Flowers LLC...

Quad City Health Officials Still Cleaning Up From Hepatitis A Outbreak

Posted on July 30, 2009
The Milan McDonald's in Rock County, IL is doing normal business again, while health officials continue to clean up the Hepatitis A problem. Another confirmed case of Hepatitis A brings the count for the outbreak to 26. Free inoculation clinics in Rock County handed out 5,366 does of either the Hepatitis A vaccine or immune globulin...

Rock Island's Trinity Medical Center Steps Forward To Take Some Of The Blame For Milan McDonald's Outbreak

Posted on July 25, 2009
If confession is good for the soul, Trinity Medical Center's Vice President for Hospital Operations Kathy Cunningham must be feeling better tonight. On behalf of hospital, she stepped forward today to admit Trinity dropped the ball in not reporting a June Hepatitis A case to the Rock Island County Health Department within 24 hours as required by Illinois state law...

Rock County Health Department Has Some Explaining To Do About Those Dates Upon Which Hepatitis A Was Reported

Posted on July 22, 2009
The Hepatitis A outbreak associated with the McDonald's in Milan, IL today is up to 23 confirmed cases, including two employees of the fast-food restaurant.  Two new cases from Scott County, IA, which like Rock County, IL is part of the two-state Quad Cities region...

Class Action Lawsuit Filed On Behalf Of Ten Thousand People May Have Been Exposed to Hepatitis A at Milan,IL McDonald's

Posted on July 21, 2009
  A class action lawsuit was filed today in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Rock Island County against McDonald's Inc., and Kevin Murphy, the owner of the McDonald's restaurant at 400 West First Street in Milan, Illinois. Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm, and the Illinois firm of Foote, Meyers, Mielke & Flowers LLC, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the named plaintiff, Cody Patterson, and all others who were forced to receive Immune globulin (IG) shots after being exposed to the hepatitis A virus (HAV) at the Milan McDonald's...

Rock Island County Politics Heats Up Over Hepatitis A Outbreak Linked To Milan McDonald's

Posted on July 20, 2009
The chairman of the Rock Island County Board is calling for Sheriff Michael T. Huff to investigate the Hepatitis A outbreak linked to the McDonald's in Milan, IL. Democrat Jim Bohnsack, who chairs the 25-member County Board, told the local News 8 that public health and tax dollars at stake, he wants to know whether the outbreak could have been avoided and who's at fault...

Quad-City Times & KWQC-TV6 Come Up With Much Of What We Need To Know About Hepatitis A Outbreak At Milan McDonalds

Posted on July 19, 2009
Thank goodness for what is left of a free press. If not for the Quad-City Times and KWQC, the folks of Rock Island County would not know the following about the Hepatitis A outbreak: From KWQC - Hepatitis A Outbreak Latest Rock Island County now has 14 with Hepatitis A...

The Hart Family Deals with McDonald's Hepatitis A Outbreak in Illinois

Posted on July 18, 2009
Local health departments continue to confirm 19 cases across Rock Island, Henry, Mercer and Woodford Counties. And those related to victims of the outbreak are starting to get vaccinated. According to QUAD TV, one family is struggling: The Harts visited the Rock Island County health Department for their first shot in a series to combat Hepatitis A...

Milan, IL McDonalds Linked to 19 Confirmed Cases of Hepatitis A

Posted on July 17, 2009
The McDonalds in Milan, IL is closed and at the center of an investigation into a possible Hepatitis A outbreak. It may be linked to either a customer or employee of the fast-food restaurant. There were 19 confirmed cases of Hepatitis A reported in the area by Thursday afternoon that appear related to the McDonalds...

Illinois State Public Health Director Cautions Residents of a Cluster of Hepatitis A Cases So far 11 confirmed cases

Posted on July 17, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Dr. Damon T. Arnold, state public health director, is reminding people of the importance of proper hand hygiene after reports of 11 confirmed and two suspected cases of hepatitis A were reported in residents living in Henry, Mercer and Rock Island counties...

Illinois Health Officials Campaign To Raise Hepatitis A Immunization Rates

Posted on July 13, 2009
Illinois health officials are reminding parents  they should get hepatitis A protection for their children. The rate of child immunizations for hepatitis A is increasing, almost doubling nationally from 26 percent in 2006 to 47 percent in 2007...

Michigan Mom Shares Her Daughter's Experience With Hepatitis A

Posted on July 05, 2009
Kathy Dopp of Safe Tables Our Priority (S.T.O.P.) advocates for a stronger federal food safety bill in hometown newspaper, the Battlecreek Enquirer. In doing so, she tells the story of her daughter's illness after contracting Hepatitis A from Mexican strawberries a decade ago...

Pets And Some Meat Consumption Play Important Role In HEV, New Study Says

Posted on July 01, 2009
Hepatitis E, like Hepatitis A, is a virus that can be spread through food.  It does not get as much attention as Hepatitis A because it is thought to be rare.  But, how that is understood may be changing. The prestigious Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is out with a study that concludes that exposure to the Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) is fairly common--but disease rarely follows the exposure...

American Society for Microbiology honors Stanley A. Plotkin

Posted on June 10, 2009
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Maurice Hilleman/Merck Award has gone to Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, for his lifetime of dedication to vaccinology, including his role in developing vaccines for Hepatitis A...

"Hepatitis A" Tops Texas Vaccine Requirements For School-Aged Children

Posted on June 04, 2009
About a dozen states comply with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommendations for vaccines for school-aged children.   The states have the power to enforce vaccine requirements at the school house door. Since about 180,000 people become sick with Hepatitis A each year, and since that includes about 60,000 children, CDC recommends Hepatitis A vaccines for children entering Kindergarten for the 2009-10 school year...

Happy Hepatitis Awareness Day! Hepatitis A & B Are Preventable Diseases

Posted on May 20, 2009
Today (05/19/09) was Hepatitis Awareness Day in the United States and around the World. Many local health departments marked the occasion by offering free vaccines for Hepatitis A & B. From the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH), we pass on this Hepatitis Awareness Day statement: 'Liver disease is a serious public health issue in our nation, as it currently affects more than 30 million Americans...

Claims Settled In La Mesa's Chipotle Grill Hepatitis A 2008 Outbreak

Posted on May 03, 2009
  In late April 2008, San Diego County health officials announced that a number of Hepatitis A (HAV)infections had been traced to a Chipotle Grill restaurant in La Mesa, California, near San Diego. Officials advised customers who had eaten at the restaurant between March 1 and April 22 that they might be at risk for infection...

Produce Worker At Littleton, CO Albertson's Tests Positive For Hepatitis A

Posted on April 20, 2009
 Did you ever notice the people in the produce department at the grocery store are always the friendliest?  That's probably no comfort to customers at the Albertson's in Littleton, CO who are being told that if they consumed store produced produce they should think about getting Hepatitis A vaccine shots...

Richard Miller - One Man's Hepatitis A Story

Posted on April 15, 2009
 In late October 2003, Beaver County ER doctors reported an alarming number of Hepatitis A cases. Investigators from the Pennsylvania Department of Health initiated an investigation immediately and discovered that many, if not all, cases had eaten at Chi Chi's restaurant in Monaca, Pennsylvania's Beaver Valley Mall...

Hard To Treat Diseases (HTDS) Offers Hepatitis A Vaccine in India

Posted on April 14, 2009
This release from a single company speaks volumes about the size of the Hepatitis A vaccine market in India, which has developed in only the last few years.  It says:  Hard To Treat Diseases (HTDS)  says its China based operating subsidiary Mellow Hope has surpassed sales of 200,000 units of Hepatitis A Vaccine in India...

VA Says Its Equipment Was Contaminated; Vets Testing Positive For Viral Infections, Including Hepatitis

Posted on March 27, 2009
  Boy, talk about another reason to get your Hepatitis A vaccine! The Veterans Administration (VA) has acknowledged that 16 patients exposed to contaminated equipment at its medical facilities have tested positive for viral infections, including hepatitis...

Bodies & Body Parts From War in Mexico Foul Imperial Beach Waters, But Surf Is Up!

Posted on March 17, 2009
The war in Mexico between drug dealers and the government last year saw more than 5,300 killed, including 843 just across border in the 120-year old city of Tijuana. Its neighbor to the north is Imperial Beach, CA. North and south of the Imperial Beach Pier is the Tijuana Estuary at the famed Boca Rio beachbreak...

Hep A Shots Advised If You Are In "Close Contact" With Newly Adopted

Posted on March 01, 2009

New Study Shows How Lasting Hepatitis A Shots Can Be

Posted on February 01, 2009
One time exposure to contaminated food can give you the debilitating illness of Hepatitis A. Now, however, comes word from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage that the antibodies against Hepatitis A keep working for up to 27 years after vaccination...

New Source of Information on Hepatitis A For MSMs

Posted on January 05, 2009
Hepatitis A is covered in a new education website launched by the American Social Health Association (ASHA) with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The target audience is: Men Who Have Sex with Men, which the social health group refers to as MSMs...

Chinese Tourists Will Not Bring Hepatitis A Outbreak To Taiwan

Posted on December 31, 2008
 We cannot say we were really worried about this one.   Regular tourism between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan has been underway since last July.  Apparently worry-warts have been concerned that the mainland tourists might spread Hepatitis A to residents of the island nation...

More Hepatitis A Now Expected In Maine

Posted on December 05, 2008
 Health professionals in Maine are on the lookout this week for more cases of Hepatitis A.  After a sixth school child was diagnosed with Hepatitis A it brought the total number of cases in the Kennebunk/Kennebunkport area to 12. Officials now think that someone who traveled overseas to an area where Hepatitis A is common brought the disease back to Maine and that is what caused others to get it...

Kennebunkport Still Does Not Have Hepatitis A Under Control

Posted on November 20, 2008
 After a fourth and now a fifth case of Hepatitis A turned up in the Kennebunkport Consolidated Schools, upset parents say they were not informed soon enough by school officials. According to Maine news site, seacoastonline. com: Following news that a fifth child has been diagnosed with hepatitis A, parents questioned the MSAD 71 School Board on Monday as to why all parents weren't notified after the initial outbreak at Consolidated School...

Maine Combats Hepatitis A Outbreak Involving School

Posted on November 07, 2008
The Maine Center for Disease Control yesterday ordered 170 students vaccinated for Hepatitis A. The shots were provided to those enrolled at the Kennebunkport Consolidated School after three children at the school were diagnosed with the virus in recent weeks...

Is A South African Province Covering Up Hepatitis A and Meningitis Outbreaks?

Posted on October 15, 2008
Whenever we get too critical of how quick and effective our governments are in North America when it comes to dealing in an up front and honest manner with we citizens, we have only look around the globe to understand how lucky we really are. After China put pressure of its trial lawyers to drop food-borne illness claims in the Melamine scandal, we turn to South Africa to find a provincial government that just wants a city to cover up a Hepatitis A outbreak and more...

Meet the Hepatitis A-Fighting Aquaduct Bike

Posted on October 08, 2008
Okay, the World Health Organization figures one billion people do not have access to any sort of improved drinking water source.  As a result, a growing number of health issues face developing countries such as diarrhoeal disease, schistosom`iasis, trachoma, intestinal helminths (ascariasis, trichuriasis and hookworm) and hepatitis A...

Syracuse University Tries To Keep Hepatitis A at Bay

Posted on September 05, 2008
Usually at this time of year, students are Syracuse University are only asked to put on their orange. This year, however, students and others who work in the food service are being asked to take a dose of hepatitis A vaccine after one server was diagnosed with the disease...

About Hepatitis A Food Poisoning

Posted on July 28, 2008
Hepatitis A is the only common vaccine-preventable foodborne disease in the United States (Fiore, 2004).  It is one of five human hepatitis viruses that primarily infect the human liver and cause human illness.  Unlike hepatitis B and C, hepatitis A doesn’t develop into chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis which are both potentially fatal conditions (Mayo Clinic, 2006); however, hepatitis A infection can still lead to acute liver failure and death...

Iowa Billiard Bar Survives Hepatitis A Scare

Posted on July 26, 2008
After a part-time employee with Hepatitis A sent hundreds to free vaccination clinics at the county health department,  Whitey's Bar and Billiards in Burlington, Iowa will be under new ownership after Aug. 16. On Friday, the Burlington Hawk Eye reported a happy end to the story: Business at Whitey's has taken a hit over the last two weeks after a part-time employee was diagnosed with hepatitis A July 11...

Hepatitis "A" Shots For Flood Cleanup NOT Required

Posted on July 07, 2008
In the aftermath of the flooding throughout much of the Midwest, health officials are advising those involved in the cleanup to get some shots, but not others.   Iowa's Henderson and Des Moines counties continue giving out tetanus shots -- also available at doctors' offices -- to people who have had close contact with the floodwaters...

Source of Cherokee Lake Outbreak of Hepatitis A Remains Unkown

Posted on June 04, 2008
In land that was once the independent country/state of Franklin, also known as Eastern Tennessee, the mystery continues. The Northeast Tennessee Regional Health District has not found the source of the Hepatitis A outbreak. The location is known, near beautiful Cherokee Lake and Mooresburg in Hawkins, County, TN...

Kentucky Says Hepatitis A Outbreak Is At Tennessee Lake

Posted on May 31, 2008
Cherokee Lake in Hawkins County, Tennessee is apparently Ground Zero for the Hepatitis A outbreak we reported on in the previous post.   The neighboring  Kentucky River District Health Department says there have been eight confirmed cases of hepatitis A from people who live in or have recently visited the Tennessee lake...

Free Shots After Seven Hepatitis A Cases Confirmed in "State of Franklin"

Posted on May 27, 2008
Traveling as we do, we often have time to learn about local history and why some places are different.  Take eastern Tennessee for example.   A remote territory of North Carolina before we broke with King George III, eastern Tennessee found it a...

A Second Lawsuit Filed Against Chipotle Mexican Grill

Posted on May 21, 2008
A second Hepatitis A lawsuit was filed today against Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., in San Diego County Superior Court. The complaint was filed on behalf of San Diego resident Rhonda Salgado, who was infected with Hepatitis A after eating food from the Chipotle Grill in La Mesa, California, between February and April 2008...

Chipolte Cyclists More Important Than Victims Of Hepatitis A To Its Hometown Newspaper

Posted on May 07, 2008
Denver is the hometown of Chipotle Mexican Grill.   So,  we are not surprised with the "homer" coverage the fast food chain is getting from Joyselle Davis, a business writer at the Rocky Mountain News.Within the same news cycle that Terry Wesley sued Chipotle for giving him Hepatitis A from eating at the Mexican fast food chain's outlet on Fletcher Parkway in Le Mesa,  Ms...

Looks Like It Was Chipotle Customers Making Other Customers Sick With Hepatitis A

Posted on April 29, 2008
You are looking at the inside of a typical Chipotle Mexican Grill.   It's a very clean-looking environment.   It's always a function of local management if the interior is really kept clean and the service running smoothly.   To be honest, we don't dine at Chipotles because we don't like standing in lines period, and these places are usually so popular that there lines are long...

Hepatitis A Outbreak At Chipotle Mexican Grill

Posted on April 23, 2008
Chipotle Mexican Grill is experiencing its second outbreak of the week, this one at La Mesa, CA involving Hepatitis A.   Fox 6 News reports:The San Diego Health and Human Services Agency and County Department of Environmental Health are investigating six cases of Hepatitis A linked to a La Mesa Chipotle restaurant...

Common Misspellings of Hepatitis A - hepatitus a, hepititis a, hepatitis e, hepetitis a, hepatatis a, hepatitisa, hepatits a, hepatites a, hepaititis a, epatitis a

Posted on April 18, 2008
Hepatitis A is one of five human hepatitis viruses (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E) that primarily infect the liver and cause illness. An estimated 80,000 cases occur each year in the U.S., although much higher estimates have been proposed based on mathematical modeling of the past incidence of infection...

Want To Prevent Hepatitis A Outbreak? STAY HOME!

Posted on April 15, 2008
Contamination of food by an infected food worker is the most common mode of transmission of hepatitis A in food borne disease outbreaks (Guzewich 1999). A review of food-borne Hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States found that in many cases the infected food handler either did not seek medical care or delayed getting medical care (Fiore 2004)...

A Look At Two States Handling Hepatitis A Threats

Posted on April 04, 2008
We spend a lot of time observing how various state, regional and local health districts handle the challenge of an outbreak, or the potential for one.   We see the Idaho Central Health District has pretty well put away the threat that one restaurant worker caused at Boise's Red Feather Lounge by working with Hepatitis A...

PF Chang's Worker May Have Spread Hepatitis A

Posted on March 28, 2008
Anyone who consumed ice, beverages with ice, ice cream or lemons at the PF Chang's in West Chester, KY outside of Lexington anytime between March 14 and 25 should see their doctor immediately.A restaurant worker with Hepatitis A was on the job then, putting everyone consuming one of those items in danger, according to the Butler County Health Department...

Trendy Boise Nightspot May Be Spreading Hepatitis A

Posted on March 27, 2008
Dozens of people are showing up at the Central Health District in Boise, ID for shots, either vaccines or immune globulin.   All are patrons of the Red Feather Lounge, a trendy spot in downtown Boise, and they were served in the establishment sometime between March 5 and 17 when they might have been served by a restaurant worker who was contaminated with Hepatitis A...

Trendy Boise Nightspot May Be Spreading Hepatitis A

Posted on March 26, 2008
Dozens of people are showing up at the Central Health District in Boise, ID for shots, either vaccines or immune globulin.   All are patrons of the Red Feather Lounge, a trendy spot in downtown Boise, and they were served in the establishment sometime between March 5 and 17 when they might have been served by a restaurant worker who was contaminated with Hepatitis A...

North Dakota Requires Hep A Vaccine

Posted on March 04, 2008
On April 1st,  North Dakota will require children in daycare to have vaccines for Hepatitis A, Pneumococcal, and Rotavirus. KFYR-TV took a look at how its going with the deadline fast approaching.  The Bismark station reports:"Well most of the kids have the pneumonia one, some of the small ones have the Hepatitis A one, but very few have the rotavirus one," says Renae Vilhauer, of King`s Kids Daycare...

Demi Moore Bash Turns Bust As Hepatitis A Gets Served

Posted on February 22, 2008
Ok, this is a familar story.  Only because the names of some of the people involved has an Hepatitis A scare turned into a national story.  It seems movie star Demi Moore threw a party for her boyfriend, Ashton Kutcher, on Feb 7th at a Manhattan bar called Socialista...

Buffalo Executive Handles Hepatitus A Scare

Posted on February 10, 2008
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...

BC Health Officials Pursue Two Cases of Hep A

Posted on February 04, 2008
Michele Young of the Kamloops Daily News, wrting in the Vancouver Sun, over the weekend reports that two incidents of Hepatitis A are being investigated by health officials.One victim, who recently visited Mexico, is a member of a local sports team.   The other is a restaurant worker who was in India recently...

Largest Hep A Outbreak In US History: A Look Back

Posted on January 15, 2008
The on line HealthDay News of the American news magazine, U.S. News & World Report, is filled with stories and information on food-borne illnesses stemming from imports.    It  includes the story of the largest Hepatitis A outbreak in U...

President Putin's Vacation Spot Suffers Hep A Outbreak

Posted on January 10, 2008
You may recall that last August, there were pictures of President Putin hunting and fishing in Tuva.We not think these events are in anyway connected, but now comes word of a Hepatitis A outbreak in Tuva's Todzhinsky Kozhuun District.Russia's NewsLab is reporting that 34 children have tested positive for Hepatitis A; and 900 other children have had contact with them...

Oregon requires Hep A vaccine for children

Posted on January 02, 2008
Oregon, it appears, will become the 11th state beginning in the Falls of 2008 to require children in preschool, childcare facilities, kindergarten and Head Start to have two doses of Hepatitis A vaccine.Over the next few years, Hepatitis A vaccine requirements will be added to other grade levels in Oregon...

Dirty doctor sent to prison, patients get tested

Posted on January 02, 2008
As soon as he finishes writing newspaper stories on the convicted Dr. Robert Stokes, Ken Kolker at the Grand Rapids Press should start on a script for "Law & Order."This strange story would be weird for New York City let alone mild and mellow Grand Rapids, Michigan...

Calgary McDonald's patrons to line up for hepatitis A inoculations

Posted on October 25, 2007
A worker at a Calgary, Alberta, Canada McDonald's restaurant has been diagnosed with hepatitis A, and in an effort to prevent an outbreak, public health officials are offering immune globulin injections to inoculate customers against the hepatitis A virus...

Merck Temporarily Halts Hepatitis A Vaccine Orders

Posted on October 02, 2007
The latest news on available supplies of pediatric and adult formulations of hepatitis A vaccine, inactivated, is mixed. Of the two manufacturers that produce this vaccine for the U.S. market, one reports that it has temporarily ceased taking orders for vials of the vaccine, and the other states that its current production and supply levels are in good shape to handle demand for the product...

2nd Fishers student gets hepatitis

Posted on October 02, 2007
A second student has been diagnosed with Hepatitis A at a Fishers grade school, authorities said today. Classes at Harrison Parkway Elementary were not dismissed because of today's discovery - the second case this month - but letters explaining the disease were sent to parents, said Hamilton Southeastern School Assistant Superintendent Richard Hogue...

Jamba Juice To Reimburse After SJ Hepatitis Scare

Posted on August 27, 2007
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Jamba Juice's CEO responded Thursday to a hepatitis A scare originating at a Willow Glen location. Santa Clara County Public Health Department said Thursday there might have been exposure to hepatitis A at a San Jose Jamba Juice, located in Willow Glen at the corner of Willow and Lincoln avenues Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr...

Know risks when travelling with baby

Posted on July 20, 2007
As I lay huddled on a lumpy bed in a guest house in Dharamsala, India, still recovering from giardia, I listened to the infant in the room next door scream for hours. Was he suffering from a similar parasite, dysentery or food poisoning, or was he just colicky? I never found out, but my husband and I promptly checked out, vowing to never bring a newborn to a country where flies are more numerous than diners inside restaurants...

Hepatitis A cases are on the rise

Posted on July 19, 2007
The number of cases of Hepatitis in Kern County California is increasing at an alarming rate.  According to new statistics released by the Kern County Department of Public Health, Hepatitis A cases have increased 10-fold from six this time last year to 64 this year...

Hepatitis A at Hooters in 2005 - How did I miss that?

Posted on June 30, 2007
The Salem Hooters, at 327 S. Broadway, opened only three years ago. In May 2005, an employee there was taken to the hospital with hepatitis A, but state officials said diners at the restaurant were never at risk.

Hepatitis Outbreak Linked To Lexington Restaurant

Posted on June 19, 2007
A former worker at O'Charley's Restaurant has been linked to the Hepatitis A outbreak in Lexington.  Full StoryOfficials say the worker most likely contracted the virus out of state. At this time, only three people have been linked to the outbreak, but not from eating at the restaurant...

Hepatitis warning issued

Posted on June 19, 2007
Anyone who has visted Earthhaven in McDowell County around May 25 is being prompted to seek treatment from a physician due to possible Hepatitis A exposure.  Full StoryCarolyn King, health education supervisor with Wayne County Health Department, said the treatment is to be vaccinated with a shot of immune globulin...

Hepatitis A found in Rutherford County

Posted on June 08, 2007
One person has tested positive for Hepatitis A after being in contact with the Earth Haven Eco Village in North Carolina. Full StoryRutherford Polk McDowell District Health Department spokeswoman Debbie Goings said anyone who has had contact with the Earth Haven Eco Village, a natural living commune, from May 25 until the present should call the health district at 925-0530...

Hepatitis Vaccinations For Food Workers Could Be Reality

Posted on May 22, 2007
KHTS News, Sunday, 20 May 2007 Mandatory Hepatitis A vaccinations being pushed by County board Full StoryTo counter legal roadblocks preempting the County from imposing mandatory Hepatitis A vaccinations for food service workers, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Supervisor Michael D...

Raw oysters cause Hepatitis A among Arizonans, including Yuma County resident

Posted on May 15, 2007
Thirteen people contracted Hepatitis A after eating raw oysters in Arizona between March 8 and 25.  Full Story from Diana Suarez at Bajo El SolHealth officials are warning people not to eat raw shellfish after 13 Arizonans, one of them a Yuma County resident, contracted hepatitis A from eating uncooked oysters at Rocky Point, Son...

Hepatitis A outbreak possible in Burnsville

Posted on May 14, 2007
Another person has been diagnosed with Hepatitis A in Minnesota. Last week, over 2,000 shots were administered after 3 people were diagnosed with the virus.  Full story.BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) - One person at Burnsville High School has been diagnosed with hepatitis A and about 20 others may have been exposed, school officials warned Thursday...

LBI wants food workers vaccinated for hepatitis A

Posted on May 14, 2007
Long Beach Island health officials are urging local restaurants to take advantage of the hepatitis A vaccine offered at the health department.  Full Story Health officials on Long Beach Island are concerned that local food-service workers are not being vaccinated for the liver disease hepatitis A and that the transitory nature of the employees, mostly immigrants, makes doing so a difficult task...

11 Cases of Hepatitis A Prompts Warning: ?Eating Raw Oysters Can Be Dangerous

Posted on May 12, 2007
The Arizona Department of Health Services and the Maricopa County Department of Public Health have confirmed 11 cases of hepatitis A in Maricopa County. All reported eating raw oysters in Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) in March and are recovering...

Minnesota Department of Health Hepatitis A Report

Posted on May 08, 2007
Slayton hepatitis A outbreak updateClinics serve nearly 2,300 people; restaurant reopens; investigation continuesMore than 2,280 people received immune globulin (IG) shots at two public clinics held in Slayton, MN on Friday and Saturday after health officials learned of cases of hepatitis A illness in two food workers at the Pizza Ranch restaurant earlier in the week...