Hot Topics - Diseases and vaccines - Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine

Hot Topics - Diseases and vaccines - Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine

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Diseases and vaccines - Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine

March 1-7, 2004

►March 3, 2004 - Red Cross Examines Blood Supply After Hepatitis Case - Some Donors Ate At Taco Bell With Infected Employee - www.thechamplainchannel.com
 

February 23-29, 2004

►February 28, 2004 - Hepatitis A warning issued for customers of New Hampshire Taco Bell - AP via Capital News 9

February 16-22, 2004

►February 17, 2004 - Food-borne pathogen traced to lettuce - Infectious Diseases Society of American via www.eurekalert.org - "For the first time, scientists have identified fresh produce as the source of an outbreak of human Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infections, according to an article published in the March 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. The outbreak was identified in Finland and traced epidemiologically to farms producing lettuce...Y. pseudotuberculosis, first identified in 1883, causes infections characterized by fever and abdominal pain that are often confused with acute appendicitis. The microbe is well known in veterinary medicine as the cause of illnesses in hares, deer, and sheep, among other animals. Y. pseudotuberculosis infections in humans are relatively rare, and while foodborne transmission has long been suspected, attempts to trace the pathogen to a concrete source of contamination in the past have been unsuccessful."

►February 15, 2004 - Onions May Be To Blame - www.krgv.net - "Dr. Lorenzo Pelly has treated several hepatitis patients. He tells NEWSCHANNEL 5 that the employee at Rudy's Country Store and Barbecue may not be the only source of the Hepatitis-A outbreak. Dr. Pelly says workers in the Mexican onion fields could be carrying the virus or the water that's being used to irrigate the Mexican onions may be contaminated with Hepatitis-A. Pelly says the best way to get rid of the virus is to boil or cook the onions."

February 9-15, 2004

►February 10, 2004 - State probing possible secondary hepatitis case at McDonalds - The state Health Department is trying to determine if a McDonald's cashier infected with hepatitis A caught it as part of an outbreak linked to green onions at a Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurant less than a mile away, a newspaper reported for Wednesday's editions. - AP via NEPA News

 ►February 10, 2004 - One Person Blamed for 16 Cases of Hepatitis - KGBT4 News - "The Hepatitis "A" outbreak has been raising a lot of questions...Recently the Cameron County Health Department authorities determined out of 26 confirmed cases, 16 have been linked to one person."

January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined due to illness)

►February 3, 2004 - Pain killer didn't contribute to hepatitis death - AP via www.pennlive.com - "There's no evidence that a pain reliever contributed to the death of one of three people who contracted hepatitis A after eating at a western Pennsylvania restaurant that served contaminated green onions, a coroner official said...Cook's wife said he had taken acetominophen because he thought he had the flu. Overuse of the pain reliever can cause liver damage, according to health officials."

Comment:  What kind of evidence were they looking for?  What does it mean that there was "no evidence"?

January 19-25, 2004

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January 12-18, 2004

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January 5-11, 2004

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December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004

►December 30, 2003 - Experts Seek New Effort to Control Hepatitis A - The New York Times - "the wake of recent food-borne hepatitis A outbreaks, scientists and medical experts are urging the federal government to intensify its efforts to quash the disease...Now more than ever, some argue, there is a need for widespread vaccination against hepatitis A."

 

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